Jim Rockford Warned Us About Google And Facebook Back In 1978

[Keith Davis]

Rockford rocks!


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> On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:24 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Why didn't we listen? The fourth season of The Rockford Files,
> arguably the greatest television show of all time, features a
> "futuristic" storyline about a terrible threat. What if a private
> corporation used computers to gather personal information on hundreds
> of millions of Americans? Could we trust them with that data?
> 
> I know, it's hard to imagine such a thing ever happening — a private
> company, collecting private and personal data on ordinary Americans
> and other people around the world. It sounds far-fetched, right? But
> Jim Rockford, the toughest and most incorruptible P.I. ever to live in
> a trailer with his dad, teams up with a younger detective to
> investigate the suspicious death of an old friend, a private detective
> named Tooley, in the episode "The House on Willis Avenue." (This
> episode is written by the show's co-creator, Stephen J. Cannell, who
> also gave us The Greatest American Hero.)
> 
> And what Rockford finds in his investigation is baffling — a
> mysterious set of real estate developments, with lots of suspiciously
> huge air-conditioning units attached. What's going on? Turns out that
> a corporate scumbag, amusingly played by Jackie Cooper, is creating a
> secret computer system to spy on ordinary Americans and sell the info
> — or ruin your reputation — for profit. It should be illegal for
> corporations to spy on ordinary Americans, Rockford protests. You can
> see the highlights above.
> 
> It all leads up to this solemn cue card at the very end of the episode:
> 
> [...]
> 
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