davidtotoole

  "The computer has thus begun to be an instrument for the
 destruction of history. For when society legitimates only
 those 'data' that ... 'can easily be told to the machine', 
 then history, memory itself, is annihiliated... Soon a 
 supersystem will be built, based on the New York Times' data 
 bank.. from which 'historians' will make inferences about 
 what 'really' happened, about who is connected to
 whom, and about the 'real' logic of events."