Chasing Automation

Chasing Automation
Author :
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 381
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501764004
ISBN-13 : 1501764004
Rating : 4/5 (004 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Chasing Automation by : Jerry Prout

Download or read book Chasing Automation written by Jerry Prout and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Automation tells the story of how a group of reform-minded politicians during the heyday of America's industrial prowess (1921–1966) sought to plan for the technological future. Beginning with Warren G. Harding and the Conference he convened in 1921, Jerry Prout looks at how the US political system confronted the unemployment caused by automation. Both liberals and conservatives spoke to the crucial role of technology in economic growth and the need to find work for the unemployed, and Prout shows how their disputes turned on the means of achieving these shared goals and the barriers that stood in the way. This political history highlights the trajectories of two premier scientists of the period, Norbert Wiener and Vannevar Bush, who walked very different paths. Wiener began quietly developing his language of cybernetics in the 1920s though its effect would not be realized until the late 1940s. The more pragmatic Bush was tapped by FDR to organize the scientific community and his ultimate success—the Manhattan Project—is emblematic of the technological hubris of the era. Chasing Automation shows that as American industrial productivity dramatically increased, the political system was at the mercy of the steady advance of job replacing technology. It was the sheer unpredictability of technological progress that ultimately posed the most formidable challenge. Reformers did not succeed in creating a federal planning agency, but they did create a enduring safety net of laws that workers continue to benefit from today as we face a new wave of automation and artificial intelligence.


Chasing Automation Related Books

Chasing Automation
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Jerry Prout
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

GET EBOOK

Chasing Automation tells the story of how a group of reform-minded politicians during the heyday of America's industrial prowess (1921–1966) sought to plan fo
Chasing Automation
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Jerry Prout
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

GET EBOOK

Chasing Automation tells the story of how a group of reform-minded politicians during the heyday of America's industrial prowess (1921–1966) sought to plan fo
MY WAY TO HAPPINESS
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Anita Bakshi
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-22 - Publisher: Notion Press

GET EBOOK

Are you happy? Do you sleep well, eat well, and appreciate what you have? Or are you just going through the motions of living? Life means different things to al
Site Reliability Engineering
Language: en
Pages: 552
Authors: Niall Richard Murphy
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-23 - Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

GET EBOOK

The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that softw
Integrated Communication
Language: en
Pages: 397
Authors: Esther Thorson
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Psychology Press

GET EBOOK

Building brands through integrated marketing is an approach being used by all top-level marketing strategists. The result of a series of papers presented at the