Saturday, June 20, 2009
You FOOLS! That Machine You Are Building Will DESTROY You!
You can laugh. It's funny, and a bit poignant, to see this 1981 TV report about newspapers offering their content via home computer. It's clear that no one in the newsroom imagined that what they were building would eventually put them on the unemployment line and destroy their entire business model. But that's exactly what happened:
The movie Colossus: The Forbin Project explained these risks in great detail eleven years earlier. The inhabitants of 1981 can't say they weren't warned.
Aw, the hell with them.
