Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ...
by nonrandomstring on Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:04AM
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> if she figured out how to automate it on her own, would she get any
kind of reward for it?
More likely she would be hauled up in front of a gang of rabid,
frightened, myopic and punitive ICT managers where she'd be
reprimanded for breaking a litany of "policies".
In these kinds of places you are not supposed to think, there,
computers are not intelligence amplifiers or "bicycles for the mind";
they are more akin to the presses and looms in dark satanic mills.
More likely she would be hauled up in front of a gang of rabid, frightened, myopic and punitive ICT managers where she'd be reprimanded for breaking a litany of "policies".
In these kinds of places you are not supposed to think, there, computers are not intelligence amplifiers or "bicycles for the mind"; they are more akin to the presses and looms in dark satanic mills.