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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Art, technology and social change, since 1996
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