IVIV (1) There Will be Computers for This

[Mark Kohut]

Airport security officials swab, puff, sniff and x-ray to look for bombs.  But until now, they had no test to identify a bomber. A new product being developed in Cambridge is about to change that says the Boston Globe. The FAST project will try to use technology to “detect potential terrorists with cameras and noninvasive sensors that monitor eye blinks, heart rate, and even fidgeting.”



--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) There Will be Computers for This
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 7:52 AM
>  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...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Orooni, ovauti, lyin' in the sun and havin' fun" - Slim
> Gaillard
>