kortirion_among_the_trees: (Looking Out)
Kortirion_Among_The_Trees ([personal profile] kortirion_among_the_trees) wrote2016-09-28 12:10 am

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/john-lanchester/the-robots-are-coming (to be read in full)

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.

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