this is martin greenberger the computers of tomorrow in the atlantic of may 1964 the same magazine inhich a believer bush published as we may think, the landmark document that helped to inspire hypertext. in this greenberger predicts among many other things, which came out more or less true, that computers were going to be dramatically transform the nature of commerce and would do that by the creation of digital systems of money and they would do that through total comprehensive surveillance. a system that could quietly police how all money was transacted, who was supposed to have access to what and which electronic notes were authentic, were real, were ritually issued. that attitude changed over the course of the following decade this fantastic article by paul armour who's been at the center for its advanced study of behavioral sciences at stanford he worked at rand who worked in the department of defense very much a johnny appleseed of american cold war computing this is the article he based on his congressional testimony in which he warned congress of the eminent danger of imbalanc