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> What is driving this headlong rush to implement new technology with so little regard for deliberation of the pedagogical and economic costs and at the risk of student and faculty alienation and opposition? A short answer might be the fear of getting left behind, the incessant pressures of “progress”. But there is more to it....
https://monthlyreview.org/product/digital_diploma_mills/
http://helmut.knaust.info/resource/noble/DDM.pdf
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For the the dehumanizing power loom
(the advantage was not "reduced cost of production" but "more immediate control and management and prevention of embezzlement")
J.H. Sadler proposed and alternative, a "pendulum hand-loom on behalf of the weavers. It was designed to preserve the skills and jobs of the weavers and enable them to avoid the degrading conditions of factory life." p.6 of #ProgressWithoutPeople by #DavidNoble with #MaxineBerg make me see Scheme programming over #OfficeSoftware

> David Noble’s detailed examination of the origins of numerically controlled machine tools in the mid-20th century. ... to implement this initial step toward industrial automation, manufacturers had to overlook widespread inefficiencies and a loss of much of the knowledge... The perceived overarching benefit, however, was to disempower shop floor labor and concentrate knowledge and control in... managers.
- https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
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