[SIGCIS-Members] Automation bibliography

Mon Jun 22 10:18:43 PDT 2015

i was recently in one of the largest used bookstores in the US, in which
there was an entire row dedicated to "computers." one entire shelf of that
row, speaking roughly, was books with "automation" in the title. most from
the 1980s, 1970s and before. it gave me some pause about the ability of we
writers & humanists to impact the world of technological change, as much of
what I leafed through (including many works I knew, some I'd read, and many
more I didn't/haven't) could roughly be said to predict and caution against
exactly what is happening today, particularly with regard to labor.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo <bbatiz64 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You may also want to look at
>
> Booth, A. E. (2007). *The Management of Technical Change: Automation in
> the U.K. and U.S.A. since 1950*. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
>
>
> Best
> Bernardo
> Bangor University (Wales)
>
> On 15 Jun 2015, at 23:19, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
>
> Another take on replacement - not for economic reasons, but in obsessive
> obeisance to other values - is the classic, "With Folded Hands".
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae at virginia.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Another cultural suggestion to pair with the *Desk Set* is the May 1964
>> episode of *The Twilight Zone*, "The Brain Center at Whipple's." One of
>> those Rod Serlingesque accounts of an efficiency expert who completely
>> automates a factory, laying off all the assembly line workers, until his
>> job too is replaced with a robot. Not the most profound account, but
>> reflective of period anxieties.
>>
>>
>> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>> Andrew Meade McGee
>> Corcoran Department of History
>> University of Virginia
>> PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall
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>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, McMillan, William W <
>> william.mcmillan at cuaa.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Don't forget Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set (1957)!
>>>
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>>> I devote attention to the subject as it related to manufacturing in the
>>> USA, with lots of bibliography, in The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed
>>> the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries
>>> (Oxford U Press, 2004).
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Paul McJones <paul at mcjones.org<mailto:
>>> paul at mcjones.org>> wrote:
>>> Paul,
>>>
>>> Burt Grad described the creation of GE’s first applications for the
>>> UNIVAC I in this article:
>>>
>>> The First Commercial Computer Application at General Electric
>>> By: Burton Grad, December 2006
>>>
>>> http://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_First_Commercial_Computer_Application_at_General_Electric
>>>
>>> He said a large team was assigned the task of writing a payroll system
>>> for the Washer and Dryer Department, while he was assigned the task of
>>> writing a manufacturing control system for the Dishwasher and Disposer
>>> Department. It took him about six months, and his programs "operational
>>> long before the payroll system was completed.”
>>>
>>> I’m not sure exactly what manufacturing control referred to, but I
>>> suspect it involved scheduling and tracking the movement of parts and
>>> subassemblies, but not actually performing real-time control of any
>>> machinery.
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul McJones
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP at si.edu<mailto:
>>> CeruzziP at si.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>> ... When GE installed one of the first commercial UNIVACs at their
>>> Louisville, KY appliance plant, they were concerned with the topic of
>>> automation eliminating jobs and its possible bad publicity. ...
>>>
>>> All that from the installation of a vacuum-tube computer with very
>>> primitive, by modern standards, computing power. A further irony is that
>>> the UNIVAC, as far as I could tell, did not have anything to do with
>>> automating production on the factory floor.
>>>
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