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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
natematias@social.coop ("J. Nathan Matias 🦣") wrote:
"Babbage’s engines were also designed to surveil the workmen... Their design complexity was vastly increased, and their feasibility decreased, by Babbage’s insistence that they print out the results of their calculation throughout the process"
In class, we discuss Gary Becker's economics models that show how much productivity firms are willing to give up in order to discriminate. The same was true of surveillance in the first computers, as @Mer__edith points out