'The least efficient machine humans have ever built': how capitalism drove the computer down a dead end

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        Hughes, B. (2016). 'The least efficient machine humans have ever built': how capitalism drove the computer down a dead end. In Hughes, B. The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World. New Internationalist, pp. 230-250

(adjective) deadly or pernicious in influence / (adjective) foreboding or threatening evil

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The baleful 1969 decision to 'go IBM' was worthy of any corporate capitalist boardroom

on the Soviet space push

—p.244 by Bob Hughes

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The baleful 1969 decision to 'go IBM' was worthy of any corporate capitalist boardroom

on the Soviet space push

—p.244 by Bob Hughes

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7 years, 3 months ago

The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes

The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes

The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes