disruption is indeed a clever girl! | paul downey, moral compass

an etsi talk or so ...

a nice documentation with licklider, larry roberts, donald davies and others in it. a young bob kahn explains the arpanet. maybe his presentation at iccc in october 1972 at the hilton hotel in washington dc was similar? nicenicenice. still talking about message switching, apart from donald davies, of course.

computer networks - the heralds of resource sharing | steven king, mit, 1972

haven't seen this before. but lucky me, someone sent me the pointer. thanks!

As early as 1958 Leavitt and Whishler predicted that computers would weaken middle managers, lower their status and reduce their numbers while they would add to the power, innovativeness, creativity and extent of control of the higher managerial echelons.| chrisanthi avgerou