$725 Billion and Nobody Decided | The Twilight Zone Called It in 1964
On May 15, 1964, a factory owner fired 61,000 people to install one machine, and then got replaced by a machine himself.
In 2026, four companies are spending $725 billion on the same idea, and nobody in the chain has to call it a decision.
In this episode we break down Rod Serling's Twilight Zone episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's," and the thing almost nobody notices in it. The machine never chooses anything. It doesn't scheme, and it never once suggests that Whipple should go. Every choice in that hour is made by a person, and the people are the ones behaving like machinery.
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