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Required Viewing: The Machine That Changed the World

Posted June 13, 2008 12:16 PM

From mental_floss Blog:

Andy Baio of Waxy.org has begun posting digitized versions of a 1992 documentary about personal computers entitled The Machine That Changed the World. Narrated by Frontline veteran Will Lyman, the WGBH Boston documentary is "the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced," according to Baio. The documentary is great fun — featuring extensive interviews with major computer pioneers, it covers a broad spectrum of computer history and trivia.

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06/15/2008 8:02 AM

Yes, and although any reader of this Topic here, has use of a Computer, I still have reservations about the amount of misuse of these efficient "clever" filing cabinet/calculator/word processor devices.

Identity Theft is now the World's fastest growing industry, and has the promise of becoming much worse.

This is inevitably going to lead to the RFID chip insertion for all people, and all articles, including food, on a compulsory basis, on the grounds of: "You can't fake the chip", and "we can then track everything you do", and "we will be able to stop crime and terrorism too", thus "making the World safer for you and your family".

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06/15/2008 5:13 PM

No thanks to that vision ! Insert a chip into my bod so I can get food? No thanks... I am 40 and don't even have a tattoo yet.? !

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