IN OTHER NEWS
been binge watching the old cult classic The Avengers. i have never watched the whole show, but am right now feasting on Diana Rigg’s Emma Peel.
well…
am kinda surprised at the show’s take on postwar fascism in the UK. of how the upper class twits are the enemy within.
like this CYBERNAUTS episode i stopped watching to write this.
it’s about a techtwit’s efforts to create the perfect technocratic dictatorship with artificial intelligence.
https://archive.org/details/theavengerss04e03.the.cybernauts
❝ Dr. Clement Armstrong: There, Mr. Steed: The electronic brain. […] a small computer built with these new circuit elements, incapable of a wrong decision.
John Steed: And what's the end product? The perfect politician?
Dr. Clement Armstrong: Exactly. Government by automation.
John Steed: Sounds like an electronic dictatorship.
Dr. Clement Armstrong: It's the only solution.❞
"The Avengers" The Cybernauts (TV Episode 1965) - IMDb - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0516899/
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NEVER FORGET
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Upper Class Twit of the Year - 1970
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JPIExgCtoDA
That's so Lady Adabella Plunkett!!! 