Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Automation Effects
Jeffrey Tucker, over at the Mises Economics Blog, adroitly points out the pro-Luddite foolishness of a Christian Science Monitor article titled “Coming soon: Robo-greeter." The article, written by Gregory M. Lamb, a staff writer, casts it words of automation fear willy nilly, like broadcasting seed on a field by hand in the old days. The article may have been more balanced, if it had been written by a journalism automation system, which Lamb fears also.
