Revisions

I love the episode of Stargate SG1 called "Revisions" in which an entire world has deposited all of its knowledge into a super computer. Books have become almost obsolete, the people depend on the computer to gain access to new knowledge or gain access to old knowledge, and to make all of this easier, each person has an interface mechanism attached to their head. The trouble is that the computer can make adjustments to the population´s memories as needed thus controlling population numbers to help with diminishing resources.
That is fascinating because a lot of our knowledge is being placed into computers and a friend and I were talking about the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire and how a lot of information was lost, whether on purpose or not depended on who was preserving it, and what could happen to the internet if there were a major crash, hack, people or governments started putting in misinformation or adding data that was false. We could only know what is true in the area of the world in which we live and compare it with stories on the internet.
I though it an interesting conversation and food for thought.Here is a clip from the episode.

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