Brad McCormick commented:
> As Joseph Weisenbaum wrote in 1976: The computer has
> been one of the most powerful forces for social reaction in
> the 20th Century
Ah, but that was in 1976 -- in the dark ages of mainframes, and before
the *personal* computer (and Macs ;-D) and before the proliferation of
home computers and the Internet. I think these have been having a
pretty liberating, anti-reactionary effect, and increasingly so.
Although it's also true that the 'market monopolist' is trying very hard
to turn back the clock towards reactionary dependencies, alas. But then
there still is hope with Linux. ;-9
Greetings,
Chris
(who never used violence against his computers
because he doesn't use 'that' OS ;-D)
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"It would seem that the creation of Microsoft was largely supported, not
least financially, by the NSA, and that IBM was made to accept the MS-DOS
operating system by the same administration. The Pentagon is Microsoft's
biggest client in the world." -- French intelligence report
"An integrated component of Windows 2000 is made by a Scientology company.
It is "a genius move" of the Scientology organization if soon such a program
that has direct and active access to all data is working principally on every
company desk and in government and church institutions as an integrated part
of a widely used operating system." -- German computer magazine "c't"
