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1. Craig Maloney ☕ (craigmaloney@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 11:41:12 EST Craig Maloney ☕

   I love this picture on so many levels.

   For starters, the amount of care that the artist made in getting the machines and other computing paraphernalia correct.

   But also because it encapsulates the promise that computers had in the 1970s. The sheer optimism that computers could really change the world in a positive way.

   I still think they can. I refuse to believe that we've corrupted computing beyond that optimistic phase.

   https://octodon.social/media/9NUaFxskapM1GfKz2fg

   1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 13:30:54 EST Hypolite Petovan

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      @craigmaloney Computing is ethically neutral, since it always gives an answer depending on the user input, either code or data. So computing can’t be corrupted by itself.
      
      Now, about humans, I believe it’s long been established we don’t have the most care for ourselves in general. Power consistently corrupts.