<nettime> The System Development Corporation

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

There is a fantastic piece of history of the dystopia we live in at

https://archive.org/details/6240_System_Technology_01_29_28_19

It's a promo film by System Development Corporation, predicting pretty 
much everything, up to and including simulating societies and taking 
corrective measures.

SDC is worth looking up itself. Started in 1955, it split, spawned or 
merged, again, with pretty much everything - RAND, Burroughs, Sperry, 
Unisys, Loral, Lockheed Martin, etc.

It's all about long term planning and building infrastructures, done by 
lots of smart people. These days these infrastructures, comprising of 
fiber, switches, hubs, semi fabs, education curricula, ideology of 
engineering, etc., are mostly hidden from the view. What is visible are 
 MAGAf public faces and ephemeral policies/business models, targeting 
of which exhausts the entire energy of activism (do you really think 
anything would change if MAGAf disappeared overnight?)

The idea of countering these infrastructures by ad-hock activism, 
hacking and similar is laughable. I'm starting to think that the whole 
concept of 'hacking' is injected subversion.


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