If you're going to read just one thing about #Tech today, let it be this.
Great piece by npub1ynlz3qpjg3zsmskuy80hmy6vgv5kht4kugld9mvd36fxuy8kgm9qf9873s (npub1ynl…873s) on the historical context that underpins #automation, with a focus on Charles Babbage.
I'd long suspected that today's overemphasis on *quantitative* metrics was for maintaining control at a distance.
This piece shows how the overemphasis of the surveilled & quantifiable (and neglect of everything else) is a relic of colonial labor needs, but a relic we still revere.
https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
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