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on my lunch hour, or overtime, or in the hallway when 
I meet colleagues going to and fro.  This kind of monitoring would be very 
irritating.  The problem increases when you consider the long-recognized 
intimidation computers can have ("if the computer says it is so, it must
be so.").

     I think this is one use for computers that is inappropriate.  Any 
other opinions?

Jeanie Egbert

[An interesting issue.  I think that this could be another starting point
 for an 'is technology good?' discussion...rather than lapse into that
 black hole, however, I'll try to forstall it by saying that I believe
 that examples like this show that any new technology can be misused.  Not
 only that, but it will have more tendency to be misused when it's new, so
 I would expect that as time passes, the inspectors on the assembly line/
 truck driver supervisors/etc will realize that there is more to a task
 than quantity.  The mystical QUALITY (as Phaedrus the wolf would say) is
 just as important...						-- Dave]

[One other thing - I'm not against people discussing the 'value' of technology
 in a moral/ethical sense, but I recommend some research first, like reading
 one of a number of books including "The Human Use of Human Beings" or "The
 Society of Technology".  Don't have the authors names handy, though.]