My personal newsletter from last week trying to make sense of the things. https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-3rd-2024/
@kin I'm reminded (always) of the Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel when I see that title, player piano. (good times, good times).
@carpetbomberz I need to re-read that. it's been a couple of years (maybe decades). Gulp.
@kin I kid of course, this is just the foreword. The actual story is more about the re-education of a creative type in the mould of corporate bureacracy under the guise of "being an adult" or a "professional" and the costs of that. Eventually leading to a final concluding event where the narrator destroys a symbol of the corporate bureacracy. Needless to say GE doesn't come out looking any different than any other bureacracy at the time.
@kin TL;DR,
Schnectady NY, GE comes up with a way to `automate` precision machining of parts (like ye olde Cambridge Mill) which was thought to be impossible. But given the right technology a machinist's actions/steps could be "recorded" and "played back" thus replacing the worker with a machine. Very prescient.