Classic! On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 7:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. The System Development Corporation (Morlock Elloi) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 21:39:43 -0800 > From: Morlock Elloi <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: <nettime> The System Development Corporation > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > There is a fantastic piece of history of the dystopia we live in at > > https://archive.org/details/6240_System_Technology_01_29_28_19 > > It's a promo film by System Development Corporation, predicting pretty > much everything, up to and including simulating societies and taking > corrective measures. > > SDC is worth looking up itself. Started in 1955, it split, spawned or > merged, again, with pretty much everything - RAND, Burroughs, Sperry, > Unisys, Loral, Lockheed Martin, etc. > > It's all about long term planning and building infrastructures, done by > lots of smart people. These days these infrastructures, comprising of > fiber, switches, hubs, semi fabs, education curricula, ideology of > engineering, etc., are mostly hidden from the view. What is visible are > MAGAf public faces and ephemeral policies/business models, targeting > of which exhausts the entire energy of activism (do you really think > anything would change if MAGAf disappeared overnight?) > > The idea of countering these infrastructures by ad-hock activism, > hacking and similar is laughable. I'm starting to think that the whole > concept of 'hacking' is injected subversion. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > > End of nettime-l Digest, Vol 126, Issue 17 > ****************************************** > -- - *Anthony Stephenson* *http://anthonystephenson.org/* <http://anthonystephenson.org/>
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