Four years after the first mass market personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale, Kraftwerk released Computer World, a concept album about the rise of computers within society. Its title track foresees the marriage between the corporate world and technology.
Business, numbers Money, people Computer world Computer world Kraftwerk released "Computer World" in both German and English-language editions. The German version replaces the repeated "computer world" with the line "denn zeit ist geld," which translates into English as: Computer world Because time is money
The song hints at an international conspiracy using computers to spy on people. FBI and Scotland Yard Interpol and Deutsche Bank Kraftwerk's Ralph Hutter told NME in 1981: "Well, now that it has been penetrated by microelectronics our whole society is computerized, and each one of us is stored into some point of information by some company or organization, all stored by numbers. When you get into Germany at a border, they place your passport into a machine connected to the Bundeskriminalamt in Wiesbaden so they can check whether you can enter or leave, for various reasons other than whether your passport is correct. It goes much further than that, there's a whole philosophy of, etc. - it's our 1981."
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