The universal use of the telephone will, of of course, be viewed with disapprobation by the sound-producing part of the community, just as the introduction of labor-saving machines was met by the hostility of the laboring classes.

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Corporate computing started out highly centralized on mainframes and other room-size machines, but since the introduction of the PC has been going through swings between the autonomy of the individual computer user and centralized management by the IT department.

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The games in Japan saw the introduction of wheelchair racing - although only in the normal day-to-day chairs rather than the space age machines used by the Paralympians of today.

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Later, a manager at the company that runs the cash points pointed out that indoor machines worked as normal throughout and insisted that the breakdown was neither linked to the introduction of the euro nor to excessive demand.

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