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OT, but this thread is probably kill-filed by the purists anyway,
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| Sunnan 2005-04-19, 3:59 am |
| Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
> Martin Luther King mentioned "the Moloch of technology" which
> threatened to automate people away from manufacturing, for service jobs
> with less pay.
FWIW, all this talk about labour-saving technology as threatening is
dependent on a trade-based market economy, which isn't necessarily a
state that humanity will dwell in for all time.
One possible alternative (perhaps complemented by others) is the
emerging idea of commons-based peer-production (a la wikipedia, the srfi
process, and the free software movement).
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