Final Solution- Comes from Buffalo?

Final Solution? The Boy from Buffalo Herman Hollerith invented IBM. Born 1860, Hollerith was the son of intellectual German parents who brought their proud and austere German heritage with them when they settled in Buffalo New York. Herman was only seven when his father a language teacher died in a riding accident …. Young Hollerith moved to New York city when at age fifteen he enrolled in the College of the City of New York. Except for spelling difficulties he immediately showed creative aptitude and at age nineteen graduated from Columbia School of mines with a degree in engineering boasting perfect 10.0 grades. In 1879Hollerith accepted the invitation of his Columbia professor to become an assistant in the US Census Bureau. In those days the census was little more than a head count devoid of information about an individual’s occupation, education or other traits because of the challenge of counting millions of Americans…. Because of the Post civil War population had grown so swiftly, perhaps doubling since the last census, experts predicted spending more than a decade to count the 1890 census; in other words the next 1900 census would be underway before the results of the previous one was complete…. Inventive Hollerith began to think about a solution, French looms, simple music boxes, piano players used punched holes on rolls or cards to automate rote activity. About a year later Hollerith was struck with this idea when he saw a train conductor punch tickets in a special pattern to record physical characteristic such as height, hair, color, size of nose and clothing – a sort of punched photograph. Other conductors could read the code and then catch people reusing the ticket of the original passenger…. Soon Hollerith found that his system could count more than people. It could rapidly perform the most tedious accounting functions for any enterprise… most importantly the system not only counted it produced analysis… When the US Census Bureau sponsored a contest seeking the best automated counting device for its 1890 census, it was no surprise when the Hollerith design won… After the 1890 Census, Hollerith became an overnight tabulation hero. His statistical feat caught the attention of the general scientific world . His system had saved the Census Bureau some $5million or about a third of its budget…. Now an army of census takers could ask 235 questions… suddenly government could profile its own population. P32-34 IBM and the Holocaust –Edwin Black 2001. As I write this there is a terrorist event happening in a nearby nation similar to our one. Hence when that event unfolded our own authorities immediately responded. They raised the threat level and immediately went into preprogramed action so watching the authorities we were able to understand the nature of their thinking- how they plan and act in a crisis. With this sort of behavior from authorities we can get some insight into their Profiling ; Threat levels; Persons of interest; Metadata -inter connections; Cell phone location or similar tracking devices- With our spy agencies having too large budgets and too much technology – and the unwillingness to take Humit- (human intelligence– actually asking people what they are doing in life and why;) What motivates them? And thus again we witness these embarrassing Key Stone Cop style events outplayed on the TV news as Authorities use inaccurate profiling and technology to come again to unusual and –wrong conclusions sometimes with deadly results for innocent people. Society upset…. But years ago I gave the book I am now quoting from away… and was wondering where it was never expecting to see it again- And now it has turned up unexpectedly so lets see where it is going. Can we say here that the European Holocausts which saw well over 12 million die –Bloodlands- Well they are looking at a- New York- Empire State Story? The Boy from Buffalo? True Story!