Ownership in every major medium now includes investors from other media— owners of newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, cable systems, books and movies mixed together. In the past, each medium used to act like a watchdog over the behavior of its competing media . . . But now the watchdogs have been cross-bred into an amiable hybrid, with seldom an embarrassing bark. Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 1987.

emphasis added.

Why the Intelligent Network was once a good idea, but isn't anymore. One telephone company nerd's odd perspective on the changing value proposition ... | david isenberg

F2C coming again soon

alan kay about object oriented programming.

I wanted to get rid of data, 2003-07-23

at the same time at rand, 1967 r.m. balzer, dataless programming

... he has to choose a data representation before coding a problem. The Dataless Programming System is designed to alleviate these difficulties. A separation between the description of a process to manipulate data (a program) and the description od the data being manipulated (the data representation) is achieved by representing all data in a syntactically identical form and treating it in a homogeneous manner.