At 13:03 98-02-25 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
>Jim Dator expressed his interest in documenting the early debates and
>responses to automation. The termed reputedly was coined in the early 1950s
>by a guy named Diebold (can't find his first name at the moment). What to
>do about automation was a big issue for the newly merged AFL-CIO in the
>mid-fifties.
His first name is John and he wrote "Man and the Computer : Technology as
an Agent of Social Change" Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers NYC 1969.
Probably after the one you are referring.
You folks got me to glance at an area of my library almost forgotten.
Here's another one that might be relevant :
"The Myths of Automation by Charles E. Silberman 1966. - The author of
Crisis in Black and White demonstrates that automation is not producing
unemployment and argues that the new technology is enlarging the sphere of
human action and choice.
Such texts steered me to the conclusion, then and still held that: Anything
that CAN be automated SHOULD be. To allow us to add to our "sphere of human
action and choice" and reflection.
It is unfortunate that this list periodically skips some posts. I have not
seen Gail Stewart's (yet).
Regards,
"The end of labor is to gain leisure." Aristotle.
-- ARG d'Ottawa ON Canada. Futuriste-au-loisir maintenant. --
