Gets me thinking of one episode of the original Connections series. There Burke talked about automation (keep in mind this was recorded back in 1978), and how

Gets me thinking of one episode of the original Connections series. There Burke talked about automation (keep in mind this was recorded back in 1978), and how it would make management simply sit around waiting while the mainframe in the basement churned out the action plan for the next week (or some such) and then implement it. Effectively he envisioned that computation could eliminate the managerial class.