I thought it was interesting how the article referred back to the rise of the assembly line in the early 20th century, then the rise of middle management in modern corporations in the mid-20th century, as previous moments when human beings feared becoming mere cogs in a business machine. In some ways, computers are a new kind of challenge, but in other ways they’re just the latest episode in a much longer story.
I thought it was interesting how the article referred back to the rise of the assembly line in the early 20th century, then the rise of middle management in modern corporations in the mid-20th century, as previous moments when human beings feared becoming mere cogs in a business machine. In some ways, computers are a new kind of challenge, but in other ways they’re just the latest episode in a much longer story.