Interesting article found while reading a book about ARPA, “Surveillance Valley” by Yasha Levine. Little did I know the Viet Nam war riots in the 1960’s included shutting down what later become our surveillance Internet prize.
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I am going to admit to not finish that prologue, but I am immediately reminded that Earth Day (ahem, check the date) started out of several campuses the year before the “official one” and our university shut down to discuss the spaceship earth. I. thiink. I have said this before, but we had the conservative (!!!) Senator from California debating an extremist on the far left from Brooklyn. It was a DEBATE, carried out in a civiil manner so you could. understand the position of each side (even if you wanted to recoil- you got it- either way). Most people on campus saw it the “other way”, but we believed in the first Amendment.
THAT was the 1960’s.
And I am now, 2022, living in that nut job world of the far leftist. Guess I wasn’t paying attention. It’s okay, though. I’m paying attention, now, and so are many, many, many, many others.
We win this with a confident smile. 
We learned computers on punch cards…too.
The jest of the article was about the awareness of the nefarious use of computers was known in the 1950’s. Norbert Weiner figured that out when he came up with cybernetics and withdrew his services for military and corporate projrcts
I was not aware of Earth Day but was given a recycling grocery bag at my local HEB grocery store to remind me. It was designed by an employee who works in the bakery department in San Antonio.
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