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Taking Time For Granted
Put simply, the last few hundred years have been an anomaly in the history of working humans.
It’s vital to explore the past, present, and future of work shifting from humans to machines, how it has impacted our view of time, and take a glimpse into our future.
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Moving Towards the Future
As the machine tools become increasingly automated, human labor is susceptible, and the position of the manager as tool is reinforced as they are as susceptible to replacement as all other human tools.
Much of the initial replacement of human tools by machine tools, however, is largel...
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Introducing the Machines
- As technological mechanization increased, a cobbler for example is now able to complete the total project faster and still retains direct control of the entire process.
- The new tools and machinery of the industrial revolution made production possible at vastly grander scales. I...
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Before the Machines
In a world before the industrial revolution, work primarily functioned under "Task-Oriented" time.
The task-oriented approach to time essentially sees time through the lens of the natural work rhythms of the tasks the individual is attending to.
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Working With Machines
At this phase, the humans and machines work together side by side as tools in a large and distributed production process of specialized tasks. Neither the machine nor the human directly owns their time but must bow to the demands of coordination.
Put another way, humans are now simply...
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The Present
Humans now undertake work largely as tools within much larger projects/tasks and are working side by side with machines, under the schedule, virtually everywhere. I’m not lamenting scheduling. Coordination can make wonderful things possible. It is, however, important to understand how the massive...
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The Future
There is no reason to believe that human labor will somehow prevail as machine labor becomes more efficient, effective, and cheaper. It’s not the machines that are driving the take-over, it’s simply profit-maximizing decisions by the company owners.
Leaping all of the ways into science fict...
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Controlling our biases towards the present
While we may never see the present as perfect, we can learn to control our biases.
- Acknowledge how the media shifts our perceptions. It can make the present look worse than in the past.
- Take a realistic view of history and compare it with the present.
- Take stoc...
Our perception of time
The internet changed our perception of time: We're looking at the past on our video screens, and it's just as clear as something in the present, making it feel like an unending present.
Time travel is also a powerful way to imagine what the future might bring. Time trav...
The Technological Time Frame
The philosophical futurologist's perspective is that the rate of change for our technology has outpaced anything we could predict in the future.
In the past, the Greeks understood the very basics of chemistry, yet it took 5,000 years after that to develop the basic models of chemistry ...
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