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Once more on IT and a return to the drachma
Recently I learned that an EBook on Amazon.com titled “Austerity, Greece’s Debt Crisis and the Theft of Democracy” included a chapter titled “The Information Technology Problem” that discussed my...
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A brief response to Joe Firestone on IT/Grexit
On August 18 I wrote an article in response to Joe Firestone, the author of an EBook titled “Austerity, Greece’s Debt Crisis and the Theft of Democracy” that had a chapter on the IT problems of a...
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Steve Jobs
The Rod Holt character in the 2013 narrative film “Jobs”. Note the SWP poster on the wall. Last night I attended a press screening for Alex Gibney’s documentary “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine”...
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What the Tesla autopilot casualty tells us about our ruling class
On May 7th a man named Joshua Brown died when his Tesla smacked into a trailer truck that the autopilot system mistook for the sky. Brown was a Navy Seal veteran who had worked in the Special Warfare...
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Lo and Behold
At the age of 74, Werner Herzog has just made his 38th feature film, a documentary about the Internet titled “Lo and Behold Reveries of the Connected World”. The German director shows no sign of the...
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The High Cost of Gadgetry
COUNTERPUNCH JUNE 2, 2017 Two new documentaries will make you look differently at your electronic gadgets, especially the cool iPhone or other products from Apple whose logo might be changed to a...
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An uncommon life in Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL)
In many ways, the best thing about the NY Times is the obituary since it amounts to a small-scale biography. If given a choice between a documentary and a narrative film, I generally lean toward the...
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The Boeing 737 Max 8: a case-study in uncreative destruction
Wreckage at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines crash near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene) On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 Max 8 belonging to Lion Air in Indonesia crashed...
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Michael Bloomberg and me
COUNTERPUNCH, DECEMBER 6, 2019 In 1975, I took a job as a Cobol programmer at Salomon Brothers in New York, mainly on the buzz generated by a N.Y. Times profile of its star block trader Michael...
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