Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

By Nicolas CaGoogle talk gives a great description of the realir

Library book

So, I first read the shallows and bored my friends with all my talk about how computers are making us dumber. Then I read Clive Thompson and bored them about how computers are actually making us smarter. Now along comes Nicky with another book and again I have to re-evaluate my position.

I found it amazing that airline pilots who suddenly find themselves having to actually fly the plane when the autopilot malfunctions not really being able to for lack of actual flight experience. And the fact that although your GPS telss you to turn rivht and you see your road on the left you will still turn right totally ignoring the visual clues around you.

In every industry computers, for better or worse, are taking over. In my job they tell you treat the patient not the monitor. And after reading this book I now totally get what tbey mean. We have to be ablre to have a certain degree of skepticism when the visual clues don't  mach what the monitor is saying. If nothing else just getting this point was worth the read.

The authors' Google talk gives a great description of the problems with implementation of EMR.

Pg. 189 Drones are good but the military is working in new technology called LAR that will pull the trigger itself based on its own programming and algorithms. 




Topics:

Yerkes-Dodson performance curve.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes–Dodson_law

The flash crash

The dot com crash

EMR





Essay

GPS and the End  of  the Road Ari N. Sxhulman

Thenewatlantis.com

Bill Joy Why The Future Doesnt Need Us

Man Computer Symbiosis JCR Licklider




Video:

Watch the authors Google.talk and see what he really thinks about EMR. 

Nicholas Carr, "The Glass Cage: Automation and Us": http://youtu.be/Mt8ooCms4sE

60 minutes "The March of the Machines"


Books:


Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution





Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

Michael Hitzik

Flash Boys
Michael Lewis

Networks of Power
Thomas Hughes

To Save Everything Click Here
Evgeny Morozov

The End of Work
Jeremy Rifkin







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