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“Designed to provide organizations with a smart way to bring people back to a physical location, such as a workplace, school, stadium or airline flight.” ibm.com/products/digit…
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https://twitter.com/mindgomes/status/1138251209515704322?s=21https://t.co/h0ohScppfL
“See everything with Hollerith punchcards" 
“The International Holocaust Machines operated through the following stages:”
“Sorting punch-card data to pinpoint residency location of undesirables to subsequenttly kidnap them.”
Think how much more effective and efficient this is to accomplish with today’s technology.
Think how much more effective and efficient this is to accomplish with today’s technology.
Dehomag D11 tabulator historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=…
This ad for IBM’s German subsidiary Dehomag is from 1935.
The imagery is prescient in terms of what the Nazis had planned for The Holocaust: the smokestack, the Hollerith punchcard whose black slots look like ashes falling back to earth. The crematoria organized by machines.
The imagery is prescient in terms of what the Nazis had planned for The Holocaust: the smokestack, the Hollerith punchcard whose black slots look like ashes falling back to earth. The crematoria organized by machines.
IBM and the Holocaust (pdf) on Internet Archive ia800501.us.archive.org/34/items/IbmAn…
“Historians have always been amazed at the speed & accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify & locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Nazi Europe.”
“Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information quietly emerged to become a means of social control.”
“In the upside-down world of the Holocaust, dignified professionals were Hitler's advance troops.”
“But there is reason to examine the fantastical numbers Hitler achieved in murdering so many millions so swiftly, and identify the crucial role of automation and technology.”
“IBM does not merely wait for governmental customers to call. IBM has amassed its fortune and reputation precisely because it generally anticipates governmental and corporate needs even before they develop, and then offers, designs, and delivers customized solutions.”
“Everywhere Hollerith was met with acclaim from bureaucrats, engineers, and statisticians. His card sorter was more than just a clever
gadget. It was a steel, spindle, and rubber-wheeled key to the Pandora's Box of unlimited information.”
Data
gadget. It was a steel, spindle, and rubber-wheeled key to the Pandora's Box of unlimited information.”
Data
“Now an army of census takers could posit 235 questions. Suddenly, the government could profile its own population.”
“In many ways, (IBM founder) Hollerith felt that he and his technology were indeed bigger than governments. In many ways, he was right.”
Gates
Bezos
Musk
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Gates
Bezos
Musk
et al
“Hollerith's first major overseas census was organized for the brutal regime of Czar Nicholas II to launch the first-ever census of an estimated 120 million Russians.”
“Watson had learned early on that a government in reorganization, and
indeed a government tightly monitoring its society, was good news for IBM.”
indeed a government tightly monitoring its society, was good news for IBM.”
“In Hitler's Germany, the statistical and census community, overrun with doctrinaire Nazis, publicly boasted about the new demographic breakthroughs their equipment would achieve.”
“When Hitler rose to power, German intellect descended into madness.
Guiding the Brown Shirts and exhorting the masses was an elite coterie of pseudo-scientists, corrupted professionals, and profit-blinded industrialists.”
Sound familiar?
Guiding the Brown Shirts and exhorting the masses was an elite coterie of pseudo-scientists, corrupted professionals, and profit-blinded industrialists.”
Sound familiar?
“Nazi jurists, medical doctors, and a clique of scientists—each with their prestigious academic credentials—found ways to pervert their science and higher calling to advance the cause of Aryan domination and racial persecution.”
Important note:
“At the vanguard of Hitler's intellectual shock troops were the statisticians.”
“At the vanguard of Hitler's intellectual shock troops were the statisticians.”
“From the very onset, the scientific soldiers of Hitler's statistical shock troops openly published their mission statement. Prof. Dr. Johannes Muller wrote: ‘One of those problems is race politics, and this problem must be viewed in a statistical light.’ +
"’The only way to eliminate any mistakes, Dr. Karl Keller insisted, ‘is the registration of the entire population. How is this to be done?’ Keller demanded ‘the establishment of mandatory personal genetic-biographical forms.’”
Health Passports
Health Passports
“Indeed, as co-conspirators, Nazi statisticians worked hand-in-hand with
the battalions of Hitler's policy enablers and enforcers, from the Nazi Party's
Race Political Office and all its many allied agencies to the SS itself.”
the battalions of Hitler's policy enablers and enforcers, from the Nazi Party's
Race Political Office and all its many allied agencies to the SS itself.”
“We [Dehomag] are very much like the
physician, in that we dissect, cell by cell, the German cultural body. We
report every individual characteristic…on a little card.”
physician, in that we dissect, cell by cell, the German cultural body. We
report every individual characteristic…on a little card.”
“At a time when other foreign companies were fleeing the Reich's violence, repression, anti-Semitism, and the inability to retrieve income from German operations, Watson moved swiftly to dramatically enlarge IBM's presence.”
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