monitoring the phones could hear them. In essence, the phone was the first
eavesdropping device.
In 1897, one of the first movie projectors was invented. The word movie is a
shortened version of the words moving picture. This kicked off a new industry. In
the early 1900's theaters were put up and silent films were shown to public
audiences. The technology to add sound started to grow. Cutting and splicing film
became an art. Camera technology became a science. Audiences began to grow.
Scientists and inventors played a major role in alot of this stuff.
A couple of major points I would like to make about video technology, even
back in those days. One, the moving picture is a video recording on film, thus the
original capacity of video was, as a recording. Two, scientists not only worked on
alot of this stuff, but cameras were used for scientific research and studies. Using
the camera to record things on film, and then studying the film later, gave
scientists a new way to view things. The camera allowed people to see things they
couldn't have seen before with the human eyes. It could also be viewed over and
over again.
Up until about the early 1920's most things were made or produced by hand.
When Henry Ford developed the assembly line, he kicked off mass production. This
era in history has been called industrial revolution. I prefer to call it industrial
modification. The ability to mass produce products enabled people to increase just
about everything about business and the economy. Mass production created, mass
profits, mass tax revenue for the government, mass marketing, more jobs, and so
on. It also kicked off the stock market and a new type of economy. With this
innovation also came the arms race and a whole lot more.
Government controls over technology grew stronger in the thirties and
forties. Certain government officials had been in on the research and development
of technology from the beginning. Electricity and inventions were thought to be
power. World War One took place from 1914 to 1918. Technology was used then.
During World War Two, technology and mass production had a major role in the
war effort. World War Two took place from 1939 to 1945. During this time alot of
things happened in the government. Alot of new agencies had been set up to
gather intelligence for warfare. Technology was used to acquire intelligence.
Espionage became a science. Many countries used technology for warfare. Small
electronic bugging devices were used for espionage by most of the industrialized
countries. Audio devises were commonly used because they could be produced
small enough to hide in places so that they couldn't be found easily. Telephones
were still one of the easiest ways to bug a room. The research and development of
all kinds of inventions, technology, weaponry, sciences, and medicine went
through the roof. All of it was financed with taxpayer's dollars and was done under
high level government control. The management of people, also became a science.
It was the start of organized paper records to record peoples histories. Serial
numbers were issued to soldiers so that we could keep tract of them. Serial
numbers later became social security numbers for the management of the
American people.
Computers started to become more and more sophisticated. Computers
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