[PEN-L:28633] Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [PEN-L:28630] Re: Re: Re: Drudgery


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> Ian Murray wrote:
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> > The strongest objections to democratizing technology come from experts who fear the loss of
their
> > hardwon freedom from lay interference.
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> This part is simply absurd! It's the software engineers, not Bill Gates
> et al who keep Microsoft undemocratic?
>
> It is worth remarking on this occasion that in May 68 in France the
> _last_ workforce to abandon the premises they were occupying were the
> staffs of TV stations.
>
> Carrol

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How about nuclear engineers? Hospital surgeons and administrators? College professors? You think any
of those groups currently want democratization of their expertise and accountability if it means a
diminution of the scale and scope of their power? Just how much difference would there be in their
responses to encroachment on their realm of expertise from the responses of the small business
person who says don't tell me how to run my shop?

Ian