> .. the design, development and introduction of computer numerically controlled machine tools during the 1940s through the 1970s. Noble’s research pointed to a struggle between two distinctly different conceptions of industrial innovation[which] sought to connect factory lathes used to mill metal parts with the power of #computers One model – the record playback machine -- left much of the initiative and creativity on #TheShopFloor in the hands of skilled unionized workers.
#PowerLoom ?

> "If you had a machine here.. in a day you could irrigate a hundred times your present area. The labor required is trifling as compared with the work done. Would you not like to have one?.. It is a contrivance made of wood.. heavy behind and light in front. It draws up water.. in a constantly overflowing stream.. it is a #WellSweep
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59709/pg59709-images.html#Page_147
#ChuangTzu #荘子 #TheWellSweep #TheMachine
#Deforestation ? #Erosion ? other reasons ? One wonders after reading of the #PowerLoom

> 'The craftsman himself.' says #AnandaCoomaraswamy... 'can always, if allowed to, draw the delicate distinction between #TheMachine and #TheTool. The #CarpetLoom is a tool, a contrivance for holding warp threads at a stretch for the pile to be woven round them by the craftsmen's fingers; but the #PowerLoom is a machine, and its significance as a #DestroyerOfCulture lies in the fact that it does the essentially human part of the work.'"

#EFSchumacher #SmallIsBeautiful #Technology #Progress

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