Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)
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Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)
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Re: Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)
#2See also his book "Computer Power and Human Reason."
Quote:
"The computer has thus begun to be an instrument for the
destruction of history. For when society legitimates only
those 'data' that ... 'can easily be told to the machine',
then history, memory itself, is annihiliated... Soon a
supersystem will be built, based on the New York Times' data
bank.. from which 'historians' will make inferences about
what 'really' happened, about who is connected to
whom, and about the 'real' logic of events."
Re: Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)
#3Weizenbaum is discussing the received doctrine of most computer scientists. Probably most of you think we are making "just tools" and that their end use is not our concern. As you read this article, particularly the later portions, think about all the codenames we've heard since PRISM and how much the problem has grown since 1985.