Speaker Feature: Jason Scott
Jason Scott
@textfiles
http://textfiles.com
Jason Scott is an archivist, historian, documentary filmmaker, information collector, and public speaker. He figured you’d be sick of historical computing by now, but it’s not happening.
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
For over a century, the selling of computers as the inevitable tools of liberation, productivity, and new ways of life has led to some of the most striking images and words in the world of advertising and public relations. Jason Scott, the free range archivist of the Internet Archive, presents a slideshow and tour through some of the most notable excessive and most outlandish promises of the technology industry.