Online services and personal autonomy · Proposed air date:
Service outages lead Dr. Dave to weigh the affordability of hosted business software against the control lost when every user depends on one remote system. He returns to the history of the personal computer itself, arguing that local autonomy is what distinguished it from a dumb terminal and that an organization should understand the price before giving that up.
This excerpt runs from 6:09.506 to 8:58.590 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2006-02-04. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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