Newton’s laws are quite an epiphany – even at its raw state, tech has constant or accelerated growth. The irony to this is that in order to have a form of political consensus, you’d like need a revolutionary leader like Peter the Great to bring about tremendous change, bearing in mind there is some form of authoritarianism – then again, when there is any leader of sort even in democracy, there is traces of authoritarianism.  Or – the Napolean Bonaparte version – post pain – and a huge anarchist revolution. I’ve been thinking a lot about the latter, and that maybe Bitcoin and Nostr is going to be how everyone takes shelter, safe haven. 

I did not know about the IBM punch card tech and the access usage by Nazi. I googled this up, Edwin Black has a book in this "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. “ (cc Uncle Bob who is doing  a lot of historic computer growth reads @unclebobmartin).  

But I was fascinated with the fact that Hitler rose from extreme polarisation of democracy during the Weimar Republic times. That and a number of big companies supported Holocaust – Volks, Audi, Allianz, Porsche, Hugo Boss, Siemens, Shell, Deutshe Bank, Associated Press. 

If you think about it, there was a time where a large group of people and capitalist industry that thought ethnic cleansing was ok. 

Maybe history, like fashion, repeats – just like how the Jews taking shelter  back in Russia today like they did about a hundred years ago. Would be interesting to see which way the branch leads – political consensus or aftermath of pain. 

After all, physics is deeply rooted in psychology, sounds about apt getting on an enlightenment era version 2. Thanks for the great take. 
 

 From: pam<-DerekRoss at 11/02 23:27

> I did not know about the IBM punch card tech and the access usage by Nazi. I googled this up, Edwin Black has a book in this "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. “ (cc Uncle Bob who is doing  a lot of historic computer growth reads).  
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Thomas Watson Sr. was quite a character.  In his earlier years he worked for NCR, and engaged in a fair number of illegal commercial activities -- He was a white collar criminal who was eventually convicted of anti-trust felonies.  This conviction did not impede his growth in the industry.  Indeed, it likely accelerated it.  Eventually he grew to be the CEO and Chairman of IBM.  And, yes, he quite enthusiastiically sold equipment to the Nazis to help their trains run on time.

His son, Thomas Watson Jr. was eventually moved to apologize, on behalf of IBM, for that complicity.

CC: unclebobmartin