Almost 25 years ago, I mentioned at the dinner table that I was teaching some video analysis software to some engineers from the South Africa Broadcasting Company. My activist daughter blasted me, accusing me of supporting apartheid. I responded that my actions would help bring television to a nation that suffered from a lack of information and that censorship, no matter how much effort was applied, would eventually fail to keep the truth from leaking out. The prior example was Vietnam, where the sight of warfare in the living room, live via satellite, helped to disgust enough of the public to help end the war and force at least some degree of regime change.
Truth has aspects that multiply faster than censors can anticipate so long as the means of communication, however flawed, exist.
Yeah. I read a trade mag in 1957 that talked about electroluminescent displays. They claimed that there would be hang-on-the-wall color TVs in five years.I notice that there now is one. It took over 40 years and they are about $18K. The prognosticators' "5 years" are about as trustworthy as the programmers' "2 weeks".
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Almost 25 years ago, I mentioned at the dinner table that I was teaching some video analysis software to some engineers from the South Africa Broadcasting Company. My activist daughter blasted me, accusing me of supporting apartheid. I responded that my actions would help bring television to a nation that suffered from a lack of information and that censorship, no matter how much effort was applied, would eventually fail to keep the truth from leaking out. The prior example was Vietnam, where the sight of warfare in the living room, live via satellite, helped to disgust enough of the public to help end the war and force at least some degree of regime change.
Truth has aspects that multiply faster than censors can anticipate so long as the means of communication, however flawed, exist.
Yeah. I read a trade mag in 1957 that talked about electroluminescent displays. They claimed that there would be hang-on-the-wall color TVs in five years.I notice that there now is one. It took over 40 years and they are about $18K. The prognosticators' "5 years" are about as trustworthy as the programmers' "2 weeks".