While machine may usurp many menial tasks – typing of letters, making out paychecks – it can also work in less mundane ways. One such example was the use of a computer to predict the result of football game. All the information about the two teams: speed of the back, weight of linesmen, past performances …
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Call Me By My Right Name
My cousin refers to himself as a “sanitary engineer” – a euphemism for garbage collector. There are any number of people who try to find more respectable or glamorous titles for the mundane job they hold. It may seem incongruous to call an undertaker a “condolence counselor,” or to refer to a taxi driver as …