Nicholas Carr looks at how computing has become a basic utlity just as electricty did at the turn of the 20th century.
"The displacement of workers by machines is nothing new. But whereas industrialisation created far more jobs than it destroyed, computerisation is taking a very different course. It is extending the replacement of workers by machines from the blue-collar to the white-collar world, but it shows no sign of creating broad new categories of employment. The electric utility was instrumental in spreading wealth among a large and prosperous middle class. The computer utility may funnel society's riches to a small digital elite."
Guardian
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soon there will be unemployed people blowing up and burning the buildings where the servers are located. in theory.
and soon green energy shall replace traditional power companies rendered useless miners for coal, oil rig workers, etc etc.
re-tool or die
Amen!
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