[BITList] How safe are Britain's cyber borders? - Telegraph

[John Feltham]

G'day Hugh,

On 27/06/2011, at 3:19 PM, HUGH wrote:

> Maybe a daft question .... do we really need to have every bloody thing that's important sitting on a hard drive (or whatever) somewhere linked to the internet? The world existed without that facility for a long long time.

While I commiserate with you I have to point out that 'they' didn't need threshing machines all those long years ago. They had used scythes up to that time.

I will remind people that the threshing machine put a lot of people out of work at that time.

The golf ball typewriter made by IBM has gone the same way. See...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter


ooroo



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