What Should I Watch Tonight? I Have Tens of Thousands of On-Demand Media Options

When I was a kid in the late 1970s, the ABC Television Network had the top three most watched shows in the United States, and I was one of those viewers. For example, on Tuesday nights, prime time? started for me at 8 PM with Happy Days and was over at 9:30 PM after Laverne & Shirley and Three?s...

Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s

This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: "NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the Inman Era," Cryptographic Quarterly, Spring 1996, author still classified...

Why Retailers Fail to Stop Shopping Bots

In the 1970s the United States encountered an “oil embargo” that dramatically curtailed people from being able to purchase gasoline for their vehicles. “No Gas Today” signs were everywhere. Gas rationing was imposed by only allowing car owners to buy gas based on whether the final numbers on thei...