{"id":6733,"date":"2013-03-17T02:50:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T06:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2013-03-17T02:50:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T06:50:51","slug":"colossus-the-google-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6733","title":{"rendered":"Colossus, the Google Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker and I were discussing computers and how much they&#8217;ve grown in influence, that we barely know what they are doing any more, even though we programmed them. \u00a0 I mentioned the 1970 movie &#8220;Colossus: The Forbin Project&#8221; and he hadn&#8217;t seen it.<\/p>\n<p>I went to YouTube and it is all there, in 10 ten minute chunks. \u00a0 It&#8217;s been there since 2008, so pretty clearly it is there with permission<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970) Part 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kQjebwUrhvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s jarring to see how much the world has changed.  Richard Nixon was President, the Vietnam war was still on the nightly news, we had just landed on the moon.   There were only 3 TV networks, AT&#038;T wasn&#8217;t broken up &#8211; it would be almost another 10 years before people could buy their own personal computers.<\/p>\n<p>Take a trip back in time &#8211; was this movie a warning, a roadmap or just a statement of the inevitable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker and I were discussing computers and how much they&#8217;ve grown in influence, that we barely know what they are doing any more, even though we programmed them. \u00a0 I mentioned the 1970 movie &#8220;Colossus: The Forbin Project&#8221; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-finances","category-war-and-not-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6737,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions\/6737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}