Disney Educational made a short film in 1983 that depicts the devil and an angel arguing over whether a young woman should learn about computers. It’s called “Computers: The Truth of the Matter,” and I got to see it at the Oddball Films archive on Friday as part of a screening of retro-computing shorts. I […]
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Parker Higgins is an artist and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He writes about computers, creativity, and the law, and works as the Director of Special Projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Previously, he was the Director of Copyright Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. more ยป
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Recent Posts
- Subtitles for Norway’s SlowTV train ride to Oslo 4 April, 2018
- Archiving threatened outlets for the Freedom of the Press Foundation 12 March, 2018
- “The Florida Project” and questions of control 13 October, 2017
- Pulling free and open weather data 22 September, 2017
- “A Mind At Play” and Claude Shannon’s grave 20 September, 2017
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