“The future world of high resolution, interactive and digital transmissions will soon be here, permitting viewers ‘to order, access, store, and manipulate video, when and where they want it.'”
“What was different was the spectacle of the whole public, not just a few, editing what was published. Also, the editor’s desk did not look the same when the reader sat at it.”
“There are a lot of good, complicated stories behind simple numbers. The trick is to identify the number that will tell the story and then go find it.”
“If — or is it when? — these computers are permitted to talk to one another, when they are interlinked, they can spew out a roomful of data on each of us that will leave us naked before whoever gains access to the information.”
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O'Donovan, Caroline. "Summer Reading 2013: “The Rise of the Computer State” by David Burnham (1983)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Aug. 2013. Web. 24 Jul. 2024.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2013, Aug. 8). Summer Reading 2013: “The Rise of the Computer State” by David Burnham (1983). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/summer-reading-2013-the-rise-of-the-computer-state-the-threat-to-our-freedoms-our-ethics-and-our-democratic-process-by-david-burnham-1983/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Summer Reading 2013: “The Rise of the Computer State” by David Burnham (1983)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 8, 2013. Accessed July 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/summer-reading-2013-the-rise-of-the-computer-state-the-threat-to-our-freedoms-our-ethics-and-our-democratic-process-by-david-burnham-1983/.
Wikipedia
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