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I predict we'll soon have virtual USB keyboards provided by a Raspberry PI with an open source "productivity simulation" software running. If companies want peo

I predict we'll soon have virtual USB keyboards provided by a Raspberry PI with an open source "productivity simulation" software running. If companies want people to score highly on activity metrics, some workers will do just that: Score highly on the metrics. I mean for some jobs, work has been mostly performative for quite a while anyway, so then this is the logical next step. Slightly unrelated: I'd also love an app that modifies my webcam stream so that I'm always staring at the camera. That way, I can read blogs and nobody will notice.

ccvannorman 5y ago
once at Home Depot an employee helped me scan 12 bolts individually as separate items. Why I asked? Because she's scoring points. Welcome to the future.
- letitbeirie 5y ago
  I once had a boss who measured productivity in terms of number of commits each dev made per day. Guess when I found out you can set cron jobs to run every minute?
  - smabie 5y ago
    What did you commit each minute?
    - remexre 5y ago
      Git allows empty commits, but a fun hack might be hooking up the Vim undo/redo tree to git commits + reverts