mirrorbird (10:30:17)
i did flip through it because i wondered what computers meant in 1974. it was sort of industrial control with flow charts.

mirrorbird (10:29:57)
it was very ahem "based"

nyingen (10:29:54)
its our duty to the Party

mirrorbird (10:29:52)
the cover had that lovely OCR barcode type computer font

nyingen (10:29:46)
lol

mirrorbird (10:29:37)
said "every party member should read this" !! wow!! pre-Thatcherite. imagine the labour party suggesting everyone should read a book now. it would be Harry Potter.

nyingen (10:29:32)
Glitchy, laggy rendering of surrounding traffic, what is that doing for me exactly, other than providing possibly fatal distractions

mirrorbird (10:29:21)
OH!! i saw a really funny book at work. it was called umm "computers and socialism", writ about 1974, and get this, on the back, the Labour Weekly (this was the british Labour Party rag at the time)

nyingen (10:28:58)
HEY LOOK AT THAT, IT SHOWS DIAGRAMS OF THE CARS AROUND MY CAR!

mirrorbird (10:28:57)
yeah it's sad how we do have half the robot stuff that was the glorious future in the 50s -- AND THEN SOME -- but it's all fucking capitalised to shit

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