"To keep your job in this new world, you'd better be doing something
that benefits from a digitized economy." (Fortune.com 4 Dec 2003)
And we all know the digitized work is the only valuable
thing on the planet.
It creates love, heals illness, strengthens bonds
between parents and children
and brings fulfillment to people's lives. It
also develops consciousness, taste and good breeding.
Brings peace.
It obviously is important enough to be the only thing on
the planet that we seriously pay money for
and since money is the definer of value then digital jobs
are GOD.
OOM!
Digi oom!
Bring us unity,
bring us....
I'm wishing a world into existence,
wishing a world into existence,
wishing a world into existence,
wishing a world into existence,
Digi-oom,
Digi-oom,
Digi-oom,
Digi-oom.
Soon the only people who are not dependent upon this new
religion will be the wealthy and they will continue to worship
Verdi.
But for everyone else it is
digi-
gigi-
oom-
oom.
REH
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THE NEW ECONOMY IS BACK -- BUT NOT THE JOBS The latest economic
indicators -- rising productivity, fewer jobs -- could signal a vindication
for all those IT managers who spent big bucks on technology improvements in
the last decade, says Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick: "We may be
entering the second great technology boom. The first one, of the late '90s,
was a boom in expectations, which pushed up stock valuations and investor
enthusiasm in the belief that the new technologies born of the Internet
would fundamentally transform the economy. Contrary to what over-eager
investors thought in the '90s, the users of the technology, not the
producers, will be the bigger beneficiaries." Comparing today's corporate
processes with those existing the last time the U.S. emerged from a
recession, there are striking differences. Today, most large manufacturers
have built a significant, sophisticated enterprise resource planning (ERP)
infrastructure to automate the supply chain and provide real-time data on
inventory and profits. E-commerce is now routine -- both for manufacturing
giants and for consumers. Communication among workers both within
corporations and between companies is now automated via e-mail and Web
portals, speeding the implementation of corporate edicts and the
fulfillment of business orders. Meanwhile the casualty of all this
efficiency has been jobs -- about 2 million eliminated in the last two
years in the U.S. as companies streamline processes and outsource functions
to overseas workers. And that's not likely to change, says
Kirkpatrick, who warns, "To keep your job in this new world, you'd better
be doing something that benefits from a digitized economy." (Fortune.com 4
Dec 2003) http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/04/fortune.ff.real.boom/index.html
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Monday, December 8, 2003 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:
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> 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
>
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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 > > >
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