 Let us remember that the automatic machine, whatever we think of any feelings it may have or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.  The Civilization of Illiteracy - Page 776by Mihai Nadin - 1997 - 881 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Byrne - Business & Economics - 1992 - 358 pages
...conditions of work of slave labor." "' Or, as he put it in a book on the subject, "the automatic machine ... is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor....competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequence of slave labor." 17 For some, as we will see, the automatic machine is also the political... | |
 | Geoffrey Boothroyd - Technology & Engineering - 1991 - 434 pages
...MIT professor of mathematics Norbert Wiener stated: Let us remember that the automatic machine ... is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor....must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. It is perfectly clear that this will produce an unemployment situation, in comparison with which ...... | |
 | Holly Sklar - Business & Economics - 1995 - 238 pages
...remember," cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener warned in a 1950 book, "that the automatic machine...is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any...competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor." 46 THE DYING AMERICAN DREAM AND THE SNAKE OIL OF KAPEGOATING impoverish... | |
 | Timothy Melley - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 258 pages
...allusion, suggests that the real human in the scene is Batty. 8. "Let us remember," writes Wiener, "that the automatic machine, whatever we think of...is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor" (Human 162). 9. See both Whyte and Packard, for instance. That this method of testing derives from... | |
 | Chris Andrews - Cosmogony - 1999 - 420 pages
...industrial revolution has been quietly under way for more than forty years. Back in 1950, Wiener wrote: Let us remember that the automatic machine, whatever we think of any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of slave labour. Any labour which competes with... | |
 | Vernon M. Briggs - Business & Economics - 2003 - 346 pages
...He wrote: Let us remember that the automatic machine, whatever we may think of any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent...labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.6 Thus, Wiener observed, "in all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical... | |
 | M. Elizabeth Ginway - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 296 pages
...on robots and cybernetics. In 1954, Norbert Wiener, mathematician and father of cybernetics, wrote: "Let us remember that the automatic machine, whatever we think of any feelings it may have or not have, is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor." - " A few years earlier, in an attempt... | |
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