Computer Networks - ARPANet and Politics

Interesting video titled Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing, from the early days of ARPANet. One cool part is how they built a reliable network by shifting the communication and routing to separate IMPs that could be homogeneous and reliable rather than the differing hosts of unknown reliability. The purposes were "to provide information about resources" and "provide services that will aid their collaboration". About 22 minutes in they discuss checks and banking, and the need to go completely electronic but how people would resist. This was recorded in 1972. I bet they never realized it'd take until the system was almost collapsed by inability to move the paper around in 2001 before the benefits would override the concerns of people. They also discuss books on demand, which still aren't here (at least not on any real scale). The call that the social aspects will hold back the technology was definitely right.