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Written by ASRG on 2024-12-26 at 11:28

"Computer Protest and Sabotage." A map of computer-related protest activities on U.S. college campuses between 1968 and 1971.

"The late 1960s and early 1970s were pivotal years in the history of computing technology. But they were also pivotal years for what one contemporary writer called "the technology of computer destruction." The same era that witnessed the dawn of the microelectronics revolution also witnessed the nationwide spread of campus protests, in which activists routinely occupied and in some cases even bombed university computer centers."

"In the late 1960s computers were fulfilling inumerable tasks, of both a quotidian and a highly specialized nature. They processed payroll data, managed airline reservations, and calculated missile trajectories. By collecting the wide range of protest actions at U.S. universities between 1968 and 1971, the following map adds a new dimension to the documented "use" of computing technology in this era. Whether it was through a bombing or a sit-in or a rally, students used computers—and the university's immense ideological and capital investment in computing—to advance agendas of anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and student control of higher education."

⟶ https://loadedonloaded.github.io/sabotage/

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Written by Kurtis Clark on 2024-12-26 at 15:15

@asrg Wow, this is so interesting! Thank you so much for sharing. :heart_fire:

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