Computer Aided Design — Some Occupational and Social Implications
| Autor: | M. J. W. Cooley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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| Zdroj: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783662391044 GI Jahrestagung |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-662-40087-6_60 |
| Popis: | There is a widespread belief that automation, computerisation and the use of robotic devices will automatically liberate men from routine, backbreaking and soul destroying tasks, and leave them free to engage in more creative, worthwhile activities. It is a belief carefully nurtured and developed by the salesmen of high capital equipment. Large Combines and Monopolies look hopefully to the Introduction of high capital equipment as a means of negating the “Law of Diminishing Returns”. Up to five years ago, the application was in the main in the field of manual work — albeit in some highly skilled jobs involving complex decision making routines. The workers involve volved, whether it be at Fiat in Italy, British Leyland in Britain, or Ford in the United States would not be prepared to agree that this opened the door to the industrial paradise which the salesmen had suggested. Designers and technologists, in some instances themselves the originators of the equipment, took a neutral, disconnected view about the consequences of the equipment they were designing, or alternatively, held a rather smug view that this kind of equipment would in any case never affect their own “intellectual activity”. |
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