"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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> 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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> Arthur, who
establishes the codes?
>
> Harry
>
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> 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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