Tomorrowland
The Last Archive
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View
In the 1950s, California was like a future factory full of think tanks. Psychologists and political scientists were trying to predict human behavior by way of computer simulations. The Computer History Museum is in Mountain View, not too far from Facebook. A punch card reader that's part of an IBM 1401 dates back to 1959.
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