Automation

As a technologist, I

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As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. … Read more

From the point of

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From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a \”disutility\”; to work is to make a sacrifice of one’s leisure … Read more

Vonnegut’s earliest novels hint

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Vonnegut’s earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener’s work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines. David Porush

I claim that this

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I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders…Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They’ll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at … Read more