Was the first computer that dealt with global banking transactions called THE BEAST?
TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS IS “THE BEAST” You may have heard the urban legend of a computer called “The Beast.” It has been circulating since 1973. The story was based on a novel by Joe Musser entitled Behold The Pale Horse. Many misunderstood that this story of a massive computer was fiction, and have spread it as fact. The machine was purportedly self-programming, located in Brussels, Belgium, three stories high, and took up the area of a city block. It knew everything about everyone, and would track us using tattoos invisible to the human eye, but seen by electronic scanners. These were the “Mark of the Beast.” This legend has frightened and upset countless people worldwide. It is now much closer to being reality. All throughout the ’70’s ’80’s and ’90’s, people who understand computers and technology have tried to explain to the technically illiterate and technophobic that the idea is absurd. The technology to build a computer, or even a network of computers, capable of tracking s
