"In 1962, according to Stover, the CIA quietly contracted the Xerox company to design a miniature camera, to be planted inside the photocopier at the Soviet Union's embassy in Washington. A team of four Xerox engineers set to work in an abandoned bowling alley and built a working model -- a modified home movie camera equipped with a special photocell that triggered the device whenever a copy was made. In 1963, the tiny Cold War weapon was installed by a Xerox technician during a regular maintenance visit to the Soviet embassy. On subsequent visits the Xerox man retrieved and replaced the film."
This is a significant step in literacy due to the fact this finally allowed the mass reproduction of everyday documents, including images. This allowed information to be shared, distributed, and stored on a mass scale. It also was the first tool that allowed a lot information to be duplicated in a very short amount of time. This copier paved the way for future technological innovations such as the printer, fax machine, and even e-mail.
by Saad A. Yusuf
Source: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/xerox.htm
Finally! From paper to people! On the millennial anniversary of Xerox being able to mass reproduce paper copies, they have done the unthinkable, produce mass human copies. Now great educators, computer programmers, and other intellectuals do not need to be found, they can just be created.
In what looks like a dual coffin, the original copy (person) lays down in one of the portals, prompts the copier as to how many copies of him or herself the subject wants, and within seconds pop out instant human copies. While moral and ethical objections may be raised before this product can be approved for mass production, Xerox is already planning a Quintillion Dollar marketing campaign for the human copier machine.
Some ethical dilemmas to ponder: Will the originals be owners of their clones? Will the clones be slaves? Will the clones be allowed freedom? Channel 10,462 aired a documentary on such dilemmas that may arise when mass human cloning finally became a reality. Now it is, so what is the next step?
by:Saad A. Yusuf