> Ed Weick wrote:
>
[snip]
> People who telework might have added reason to get out of Their
> pyjamas and comb their hair, as experimental monitoring technology now
> allows employers to capture photo images of employees in their home
> offices.
[snip]
> "The overriding assumption appears to be: 'If we can get the
> technology right, people will accept it.' [Yet] this stance overlooks
> some of the fundamental psychological issues," their report said.
[snip]
I wonder what the computer programmers, programming managers, et al.
who make this stuff possible think about the work they are doing?
I wonder how many of "these people" have PhDs? I wonder especially
about what these think about the work they are doing.
What sociologists and others are studying these people [the
implementers and their managers]?
Of course these persons may be under as much duress as
the whisky bottling people who have the choice of earning
a living or urinating (it may not be true that the astronomer
Tycho Brahe died from a urinary blockage because he was
too polite to leave the dinner table --> but one
person pointed out to me that the king was at the
table and that limited Tycho's options).
At least the whisky bottle fillers *know* they
have a problem. Do the programmers and
their managers et al. even think there is a problem?
I really hope I am never faced with the alternative between
making Zyklon-B or my life being ruined and rotting in
the street with tuberculosis, etc. But I also
sincerely believe this is not an impossibility in our
free society (obviously I am being metaphorical -- there
have been great advances in chemistry in the past 60 years,
which have obsoleted many products from back then).
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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