TheTedNelson: Ted's 1984 warning about network freedom-- PRETTY CLOSE

  • Monday, 19 August 2019 04:23
One-sentence interview at the end of the first Hacker conference, Marin Headlands, 1984. Somehow Getty Images think they own it. Excuse me-- these are MY words, don't I own them? The sentence: "I think it's important to remember at this time that as we go back out into the world, we leave these happy headlands, this open-faced setting with all these happy hills, we remember that the world of tomorrow is not going to be like the past and the networks we move into are going to be threatened by the KGB, the CIA, Sears Roebuck, and any number of strange, ostensibly honest, suspicious entities whose very nature and motivations must be very carefully scrutinized so it's up to the entire public to defend itself, to look to the extension of freedom of privacy, freedom of information, freedom of association, and all the things that have made America great in this strange, new and dark network world." Sears Roebuck? That was then. Think now: Amazon. =30=

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