Agree. When we disconnect work from income, as you suggest, then how do people receive income?
arthur -----Original Message----- From: Franklin Wayne Poley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 8, 2003 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Future Teaching On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There will always be a need for human intelligence. As human intelligence > gets encoded into routine functions, productivity rises while fewer and > fewer people are needed in the labour force. Good or bad? Depends on how > we distribute "the new wealth of nations" The educational wealth of nations could be mass distributed NOW by teaching machines so that the poorest eligible student on the planet would receive quality higher education at little more than the cost of pc use. The question about MIT's $100,000,000 OCW venture is how much is "boon" and how much is "doggle". That works out to $50,000/course. If they give me a budget like that I will ensure that not only are the course materials presented, but also the ENTIRE COURSE WILL BE TAUGHT. And it will be taught by teaching machine and the human professors will have to redefine their roles in society. The financial contributions of Microsoft to MIT for purportedly innovative education make me very suspicious. Microsoft's big programs like Windows and VS .NET are accompanied by such pathetic pedagogy in the books and manuals which purport to explain them that I have to think that the "doggle" part of this is deliberate. In other words they are protecting intellectual property by using deliberate methods of confusion so it is really counter-education disguised as education, misanthropy disguised as philanthropy. I guess some people learned their Cold War lessons well. Now there is a new kind of social class war: technolords against technopeasants. I would be happy to show Microsoft how to put out a first rate manual to accompany Windows or .NET but that does not appear to be what they want. So much for that quaint old slogan, "The customer is always right". By keeping the technopeasant masses in the dark, the technolords have also raised up a new social class beholden to them, the technopriests. Technopriests disguised as technicians practice hermeneutics by teaching the ignorant peasants (alias customers) how to interpret the 'icons' (defined as religious symbols) for program use when any good manual would make this new priesthood unnecessary. That is what I would like to see Charlie Rose discuss the next time he has President Vest on as guest. FWP > -----Original Message----- > From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 8, 2003 4:09 AM > To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] Future Teaching > > > Arthur, who establishes the codes? > > Harry > > > ******************************************** > Henry George School of Social Science > of Los Angeles > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 > http://haledward.home.comcast.net > ******************************************** > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] Future Teaching > > As the saying goes, the smarter the machine the dumber need be > the operator. > > With machine intelligence there will be little need for operators > to know anything but punching in the codes--this goes for > computerized machine tools or smart microwaves or smart cars. > > Arthur > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 12/5/2003 > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
