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I actually have a translated copy of this book: https://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/matusow/beastofbiz.html https://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/matusow/beastofbiz.html Also see: https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526160720/9781526160720.00009.xml https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526160720/978152... "The result was the launch of the International Society for the Abolition of Data Processing Machines (ISADPM) – President, Harvey Matusow. The society was in many ways a media construct and little substantial activity took place on the ground, although much was promised. It was a minor, but for a time significant, part of a broader public debate in England around the emerging database society. It resonated with a cultural unease around computerization and its medium effects felt in the late 1960s, what might be termed a database anxiety. For many at that time computers seemed alien and the proposition that they might be ‘far more deadly than the Beatles’ yellow submarine’, as one US Congressman put it, 4 not entirely absurd."