On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:24:02 -0500, "J. Clarke"
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wrote:

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'.

When you can give the machine the drawing and the lumber and it produces the
finished part without further intervention then the machine has the skill.
Until then the skill lies in setting the machine up to do the work. Even
NC machines need tweaking to get the parts to come out right.

Increasingly the skill is shifting to the machine from the human. It's
not entirely there yet and it may never be for most things. However
the process has been going on for more than a century.

--RC


--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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