Leab, Katharine Kyes - "Automation in Rare Books: The Dark Side of the Moon" (14 August 1984) by Rare Book School Lectures published on 2015-10-30T13:10:02Z Lecture 167 (14 August 1984) Genre rare books Comment by timgrasso "The computer has thus begun to be an instrument for the destruction of history. For when a society legitimates only those data that are in one standard format and that can easily be told to the machine, then history, memory itself, is annihilated." At least it becomes more predictably biased towards certain kinds of history and certain producers of historical data. Most likely, this will increase the bias of historical data towards majoritarian viewpoints. 2021-01-12T23:00:02Z Comment by timgrasso "Information is not the same as research, and that publication without some sort of peer review could result in such a glut of undifferentiated information that the result would be static." How prophetic with today's problems of online content moderation and misinformation. 2021-01-12T22:50:31Z
