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Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)

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189 points entaloneralie | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 21:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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profsummergig ◴[18 Jul 25 22:35 UTC] No.44610527[source]▶
Computers could hardly do anything back then. Mostly backend data processing.

Yet this speech could have been written today.

Intriguing.

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1. forinti ◴[19 Jul 25 14:22 UTC] No.44615687[source]▶
Data processing by itself was a major leap in productivity.

My city ran its payroll on a single computer with 64KB of RAM. This would have required weeks of work from a whole team of bureaucrats.