[spectre] Lessons from the Luddites - By Alex McLean

[Marc.garrett]

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Lessons from the Luddites - By Alex McLean

"In which the spectre of the Luddite software engineer is raised, in an AI-driven future where programming languages become commercially redundant, and therefore take on new cultural significance."

Threats to human labour from mechanisation affected millworkers of the Industrial Revolution just as AI and Deep Learning threaten the programmers of today.

What can we learn from historical resistances to automation? Can we envisage a future where programming is liberated from a military-industrial imperative and dedicated to creative pursuits?

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/lessons-luddites

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Marc Garrett

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Art, technology and social change, since 1996
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