"And now, thanks to the growing power that computer engineers and software coders wield over our intellectual lives, Taylor’s ethic is beginning to govern the realm of the mind as well."
— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)
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July-August, 2008
Metaphor
"And now, thanks to the growing power that computer engineers and software coders wield over our intellectual lives, Taylor’s ethic is beginning to govern the realm of the mind as well."
Metaphor in Context
Taylor’s system is still very much with us; it remains the ethic of industrial manufacturing. And now, thanks to the growing power that computer engineers and software coders wield over our intellectual lives, Taylor’s ethic is beginning to govern the realm of the mind as well. The Internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the "one best method"--the perfect algorithm--to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come to describe as "knowledge work."
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Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The Atlantic (July/August, 2008). <Link to theatlantic.com>
Date of Entry
04/08/2015
