The Ironies of Automation (1983)

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1cg

Hey all, this 1983 paper looking at factory automation was recommended to me and makes some very interesting points that seem extremely relevant to the post-AI programming world.

kazaii

I think Andrew Clay Shafer called a person's journey as "Mean Time to Ironies of Automation".

Deming, Bainbridge, Goldratt, Kim ... but my fav is Trist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociotechnical_system