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Article #625212Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:02
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:02
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-08-02, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote: >> On 2018-08-02, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >>> On 2018-08-02, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:51:44 -0400 >>>> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It may actually be the same thing, an expectation of centralized >>>>> computers taking care of everyone, instead of a whole lot of computers. >>>> >>>> That is certainly the picture that appears in every science fiction >>>> mention of computers pretty much right up until reality did something >>>> different. >>> >>> And now, under reality v2.0, the wheel is coming around again. >>> We're going back to centralized computers taking care of everyone >>> (FSVO "care"). There are still lots of computers everywhere, >>> but they're just being used as terminals. >>> >> >> Is Facebook the present reality of Eternal September (Not the site, the present >> reality of the mob of people who would discover the Internet in September.) > > Most of the people on FB make the "eternal September" crowd look like > intellectual giants. > > Look at the accusation that the Russians meddled in the election by posting bogus stuff on Favebook. Who the heck gets their political information from FB??? If there are many people doing this we have a lot more problems than just Russians! -- Pete
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