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🧵 White Collar AI as McCormick's Reaper?
> Langdon Winner’s research on agricultural mechanization, especially McCormick’s famous reaper. Winner concluded that various innovations in the manufacture of McCormick’s reapers at first made them more costly and less reliable, but they helped concentrate economic power more firmly in the hands of production plant managers.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
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On Technology’s Past and Future

The development of GMOs and gene-edited crops reaffirms the many ways in which new technologies both reflect and help reinforce the commercial imperatives, and the larger social matrix, from which they emerged

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