Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:39:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <3CE3FCDC.2CF32A7C@mindspring.com> References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <042001c1fc8c$f5922060$3dec910c@daleco> <20020516133105.GB94084@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-05-15 22:51, "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > > Technology is almost always of interest. Mankind is creative, and > > often lazy at the same time; we seek creative ways to avoid the > > harsher forms of labor. > > The funny thing that has always striken me as, well, funny, about all > this is that we spend time and effort, while trying to find those > creative ways ;) The thing that strikes me is that there are Japanese automobile manufacturing plants that are 93% automated, and the most automated American plant is down around 46%. Also, when NeXT machines were being produced, the entire factory was pretty much runnable by 2 people. I don't know what Cannon did with the factory after they bought it and switched it over to nothing but laser printer engine production, or what happened subsequent to that, but I'm guessing it now takes more than 2 people. A lot of jobs are unnecessary, but until we do something about the way the economy operates, you're going to continue to see incredible back-pressure from people who fear the future. The labor unions keeping automation out of Detroit are only the tip of the iceberg. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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