Once you do scrutinize them, then you can see just how destructive and inhumane this pitch has finally become. ‘Cause you’re not meant to really scrutinize these things, you see. MARK CRISPIN MILLER, Johns Hopkins University: So, you’re flipping through a magazine, or you’re flipping through the channels, and these images just kind of flash onto your consciousness. NEIL POSTMAN: Posters, advertising, the works This is a culture that is inundated with visual imagery. And at its center, the image is taking over. The Altair 8800, the first commercially successful micro-computer, was launched on the market shortly after Computer Lib.NEIL POSTMAN, New York University: The environment created by language and the printed word has now been moved to the periphery of the culture, especially the printed word.
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not a mainframe computer, but rather those that could be operated by individual persons) and the PC were on the way towards conquering the world. Ted Nelson is a philosopher, but most importantly a pioneer of information technology, and since the very beginnings of micro- and personal computers has campaigned for the comprehensibility of these devices. This was and remains Nelson’s cause: Computers – or rather a user interface – should be understandable to all within as short a time as possible.
Cybercrud is a term he coined, which is best explained as the incomprehensibility of the computer world.
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In this – or more precisely in the two books he wrote – Nelson combines a manual for using computers with political freedom and presents his cause under the motto “Computer power to the people! Down with the cybercrud”. In 1974, American Ted Nelson published his book “Computer Lib / Dream Machines” with the subheading “You can and must understand computers NOW”. Ted Nelson – Computer Power to the People The time had come to find bolder words, and the first result of this shift in his thinking was the song “Power to the People”, which Lennon wrote shortly after the interview.ģ.
Prior to that, Ali and Blackburn had criticized Lennon for his non-violent form of protest. In 1971, Lennon gave an interview to activists Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn of the Marxist magazine “Red Mole”, as a result of which his views on possible forms of protest changed. In Lennon’s music too, peace had long been a major theme, for example in “Give Peace a Chance” or “Instant Karma”. Their “sit-ins” in Amsterdam and Toronto became particularly famous, as did their “War Is Over (If You Want It)” campaign in 1969. By the end of the 1960s, John Lennon and his second wife Yoko Ono were already organizing happenings together in order to campaign for world peace. It was not the first political song by Lennon and Ono, but it was one that was to usher in a new phase in Lennon’s career and political stance. The song “Power to the People” by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band was released in the UK on March 12, 1971. John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band – Power to the People
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