Monday, January 22, 2018
Good prophecy
From the incomparable American Radio History library, a 1970 issue of British Practical Electronics has an editorial...
In fact the nightmare arrived quietly in the early '80s. The web, embodied in Compuserve and Prodigy and similar services, was becoming commonplace. At the same time, by a mysterious coincidence, NSA's language processing abilities reached maturity.
Hmm. That's funny. I thought the media NEVER used bugging. Now that Wikileaks and O'Keefe and others are FINALLY using bugging to reveal the media's own massive infinite indescribable feral wickedness, the alien demons are claiming virginal purity and mobilizing legislatures to outlaw such activities....
... Just as the magazine prophesied in 1970. The writer was appropriately cynical about the value of "laws", but unduly sanguine about the monstrous hypercriminal gangs known as "courts", which have been the vanguard of tyranny.
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In fact the nightmare arrived quietly in the early '80s. The web, embodied in Compuserve and Prodigy and similar services, was becoming commonplace. At the same time, by a mysterious coincidence, NSA's language processing abilities reached maturity.
Hmm. That's funny. I thought the media NEVER used bugging. Now that Wikileaks and O'Keefe and others are FINALLY using bugging to reveal the media's own massive infinite indescribable feral wickedness, the alien demons are claiming virginal purity and mobilizing legislatures to outlaw such activities....
... Just as the magazine prophesied in 1970. The writer was appropriately cynical about the value of "laws", but unduly sanguine about the monstrous hypercriminal gangs known as "courts", which have been the vanguard of tyranny.
¶ 2:08 AM
