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This congressional report from 1969 details some of the burgeoning fears around advances in technology that surfaced in the mid-20th century, including the loss of “our individuality, our dignity, and our privacy” to computers. The report touches on issues that are still concerns today, as well as those that seem outdated. Echoing sentiments from authors much earlier in history, at the close, the author notes, “The standard acronym is GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out. My purpose is to disabuse non-professionals of the notion that it really means, Garbage in, gospel out.”

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