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I would argue that the shift to "Cogs in a giant automated dispatching machine" already happened with living in an industrialized society, except it's software
by athenot 12y ago
I would argue that the shift to "Cogs in a giant automated dispatching machine" already happened with living in an industrialized society, except it's software instead of bureaucracy.
In either case, the organizational "middleware" is under the control of its owners.
- avn2109 12y agoAgreed. It feels like we're merely changing the means, not the ends, ie. the system is doing what it's always done, just now it is more efficient.
- krschultz 12y agoThis is effectively the industrial revolution of knowledge workers & the mobile workforce. We found things for everyone to do, but if history may be a guide, we could be in for 30-80 years of adjustment.
- smacktoward 12y agoIt already happens to some degree, when you consider how strongly companies treat their stock price as an indicator of what is and isn't working and how much stock trading is automated these days. The companies dance to tunes increasingly played by algorithms.