🧵 Chatbots as Coal-Powered Steam?
> ... watermills remained far more efficient and reliable for several decades into the coal era, and there was never a shortage of potential sites for new water-powered textile mills. However rural workers who lived along England’s riverbanks were far more independent-minded and more likely to abandon the mills when working conditions became too onerous, vs. often-desperate urban workers.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
#WhiteCollarAI #OfficeChatbots #AIChatBots as #CoalSteamMills
https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/
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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