On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:59:42 -0500, "George" george@least wrote:

NO! The machine is incapable of doing the job without the human, whereas
the human is capable of doing the job without the machine.

The machine is about repetition. It produces the same result, given the
same input. It can do no other.

The question isn't whether one can do the job without the other. It's
which part of the system (human-machine) has the skill. With modern
machinery the answer is increasingly 'the machine'.

--RC



"Charlie Self" wrote in message
...
rcook writes:

Essentially, the trend is to transfer the skill from the human into
the tool That's been going on for a couple of hundred years now

It's been going on since the first caveman learned to sharpen a stone
before
hitting his enemy or prey.

Charlie Self
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than
Christianity
has made them good." H. L. Mencken


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