IVIV (1) There Will be Computers for This

[Michael Bailey]

 alice wellintown wrote:

> information machine. What is the impact on labor and the worker? This
> is the question we started with. My clain was that Aunt Reed will be
> replaced by a Machine--an automatic inflormation machine (i.e. HAL
> 2001).
>

to me, here is where you are right in that when people organize their
labor they can be still profitably, pleasurably, productively involved
in the process somehow or another.  Rather than formalizing exact
roles, which again reminds me of Gaddis: "decline from status to
contract"

My (perhaps trite) observation is that management is just labor that
has organized...

Also, it is quite thrilling to look at the entire map of a county and
be able to zoom into an individual address and its documents and often
pictures.
But that doesn't mean that somebody knowing the "lay of the land" so
to speak wouldn't still be able to access the map more creatively, so
forth...




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