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Article #28More on the risks of over-automation
From: taylor
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1986 21:52
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1986 21:52
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a halfway-equitable way of distributing wealth? For that
matter, what fraction of current humanity could cope with a lifetime of
leisure if they were suddenly presented with it? Somebody (Arthur C.
Clarke?) once defined a civilized man as one who could be happily and
productively occupied for the rest of his life if he was completely
freed from all need to earn a living. What fraction of the current
population of the Western nations, never mind the Third World, is
"civilized" by this definition?
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: More on the risks of over-automation Message-ID: <342@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 17:52:52 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.342 Posted: Fri Jun 27 17:52:52 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 08:21:38 EDT Reply-To: hplabs!pyramid!utzoo!henry Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 11 Approved: taylor@hplabs