Comments on: Book review – The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future/2019/10/02/book-review-the-weather-machine-how-we-see-into-the-future/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:44:51 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Rage Inside The Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/10/02/book-review-the-weather-machine-how-we-see-into-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-9946Thu, 28 May 2020 10:39:29 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3998#comment-9946[…] The current fears that AI will soon make large swathes of humanity unemployable (see The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts and CGP Grey’s excellent video Humans Need Not Apply) is an echo of what happened when the Industrial Revolution replaced the cottage industry with factories (see also my review of The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation). Conversely, the notion that you can increase efficiency by dividing labour influenced how humans did complex computations before technology could help out – it led to groups of skilled people in computing factories breaking down the task into bite-sized chunks (see e.g. my review of The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future). […]

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]]>By: Book review – Rage Inside The Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/10/02/book-review-the-weather-machine-how-we-see-into-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-7106Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:38:20 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3998#comment-7106[…] The current fears that AI will soon make large swathes of humanity unemployable (see The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts and CGP Grey’s excellent video Humans Need Not Apply) is an echo of what happened when the Industrial Revolution replaced the cottage industry with factories (see also The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation). Conversely, the notion that you can increase efficiency by dividing labour influenced how humans did complex computations before technology could help out – it led to groups of skilled people in computing factories breaking down the task into bite-sized chunks (see e.g. my review of The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future). […]

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