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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by jopsen on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:47AM (#31581755)
> when ship builders switched from high-skilled artisans to carve each pulley for the sails individually and by hand, to using jigs so that low-skilled carpenters could make a lot...

Sounds like an interesting story, do you have a link :D

Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by hef19898 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:57PM (#31588666)
I can recommend the book "Better, faster, cheaper - history of manufavturing" which covers this topic among basically manufacturing going to the, literally, stone age.
Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by ben_w on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:29AM (#31583299)
Sadly not, it was from a TV documentary