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by Michael Peter Edson
“[Lucy] Suchman showed a tape of 2 men failing at making double-sided copies. Xerox executives scoffed at the technological illiteracy of the men until Suchman pointed out that they were both computer scientists, & one was Allen Newell, winner of a Turing Award.”
— What the struggle to automate housework tells us about the limits of the robot revolution, by Ian Leslie, the New Statesman, November 2018
design, robotics, idiocracy
Posted June 29, 2019
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