If you see articles claiming that V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai invented email, ignore them. He did no such thing, unless he invented when it he was two years old in 1965.

“Probably the first email system of this type was MAILBOX, used at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965. Another early program to send messages on the same computer was called SNDMSG.”

And the first email sent over ARPANET occurred in 1971, seven years before he claims to have “invented” email.

Hell, my grandfather was sending and receiving email at Purdue in the early- to mid-1970s.

In truth, no one person invented email. It was developed over time from very basic beginnings, building on older things as all tech does, and evolved with said technology.

Nearly all email conventions, practices and technologies, however, had already been developed by 1978. Ayyadurai had nothing to do with it.

There is no such thing as the unbiased view. I was thinking about that as I was reading this article, “The New Scientism.”

It’s most prevalent among engineering types, but even in science there is the belief that there is some platonic ideal viewpoint from which to make decisions and to pursue paths of inquiry.

This is a fiction; there is no human realm free of bias or of politics.

Even choosing what to study itself is a result of bias, of unconscious prioritization, and of what one has been taught is important to see.

This isn’t a groundbreaking insight or anything. It is rather obvious. However, rather obvious things are often not convenient for corporations and their lackeys, as well as governments, their solons and their pencil-pushers, so are often denied by large portions of the population.

Propaganda, after all, is extremely effective and promulgating the idea that there is just no other way to do things is one of the most effective pieces of such mind control ever devised.