J. Nathan Matias 🦣 on Nostr: "Babbage’s engines were also designed to surveil the workmen... Their design ...
"Babbage’s engines were also designed to surveil the workmen... Their design complexity was vastly increased, and their feasibility decreased, by Babbage’s insistence that they print out the results of their calculation throughout the process"
In class, we discuss Gary Becker's economics models that show how much productivity firms are willing to give up in order to discriminate. The same was often true of surveillance for Babbage as npub1ynlz3qpjg3zsmskuy80hmy6vgv5kht4kugld9mvd36fxuy8kgm9qf9873s (npub1ynl…873s) points out
https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/#41-end
In class, we discuss Gary Becker's economics models that show how much productivity firms are willing to give up in order to discriminate. The same was often true of surveillance for Babbage as npub1ynlz3qpjg3zsmskuy80hmy6vgv5kht4kugld9mvd36fxuy8kgm9qf9873s (npub1ynl…873s) points out
https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/#41-end