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“If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are.”
― Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
― Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
“Those smarts would be crucial. “People thought that the keyboard we delivered wasn’t sophisticated, but in reality it was super-sophisticated,” Williamson says. “Because the touch region of each key was smaller than the minimum hit size. We had to write a bunch of predictive algorithms technology to think about the words you could possibly be typing, artificially increase the hit area of the next few keys that would correspond to”
― The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
― The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
“Social bonds were not easily broken; it was not easy to stare into the eyes of a friend and say, I am taking your job. (One benefit of machinery was that it could be used as a rhetorical tool as well, to muddy the moral clarity of the situation—a use it’s been put to by owners ever since. It’s the robots, not your boss, that’s coming to take away your job.)”
― Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
― Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
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