Re:What the Fluck
by HorizonXP on Friday December 06, 2013 @12:13AM
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I admit that I dismissed this article due to the title. Your comment prompted me to give it a second chance, and it's actually a pretty decent read.
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Adam Curtis has a lot of interesting pieces. Take them with a shaker full of salt, though. (Especially the "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". That one was very interesting, but also very mislead.)
How so?
He doesn't seem to be aware that computers are universal machines. So the circumnstances and ideologies of their creators do not determine computers' destiny.
The Clinton affair angle was also out of proportion.