philodeon 3 days ago

Book recommendation for you: “IBM And The Holocaust” by Edwin Black.

If IBM (then known as Hollerith) could do that much damage with German census data on punchcards…

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  • freedomben 2 days ago

    > Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction.

    From IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black.

    Imagine the "massively organized information" that will be available to people in power in the future. It doesn't have to be a genocide for it to be useful to them. People in power today are fully on board with "social control" and it's so uncontroversial that they talk about it openly.

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syndicatedjelly 2 days ago

Comments like this are why schools should make liberal arts education mandatory again in the STEM curriculum

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