14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
5:19 p.m.
I remember the very bitter labor union battles the typesetters had with the
Washington Post in the 1960's. It was a fight over 'computerizing' the
typesetting process, come to think of it the computers were probably
PDP-8's. [just to keep it on topic]
A number of people lost their jobs to technology, but what a technology!
Doug
At 08:31 PM 10/13/2005, you wrote:
Brad Parker wrote:
They were anti-loosing-your-job-due-to-technology.
They didn't think it
was right that 10 people working should become 3 people working just
because a new machine was installed...
I can't think of were computers really had the most inpact other than
word-processing and accounting. I think it was more
the USA was not as inovative in small things but only large scale
things.
(and, I think they had a point. I think
economists are all smoking
really good dope when they talk about mythical 'productivity gains')
productivity gains = more $$ for management from my view point.
>-brad
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