Oh what the hell, while we're on the subject of work
I find the conjunction of this, dating from the year I was born:
(In particular the lines: 'We've got a machine can learn the knack / Of doing your job, so don't come back ... Watch out for the man with the silicon chip')
With this: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/
Utterly fascinating. MacColl as a prophet of the socio-economic consequences of 'machine learning' (!!) - who'd have thunk it?
P. S. It's also just occurred to me that the LRB is the only present-day equivalent in this country of a 19th c. толстый журнал.
(In particular the lines: 'We've got a machine can learn the knack / Of doing your job, so don't come back ... Watch out for the man with the silicon chip')
With this: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/
Utterly fascinating. MacColl as a prophet of the socio-economic consequences of 'machine learning' (!!) - who'd have thunk it?
P. S. It's also just occurred to me that the LRB is the only present-day equivalent in this country of a 19th c. толстый журнал.