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Article #625216Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: JimP
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:22
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:22
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 06:02:12 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >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! Apparently large numbers of people get their info only from FB.
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