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SUBJECTS
SDS Theory, Toffler, Future Shock, New Age
New World Order, Farming - Investing Saves Time
New Age Business, Self-Actualization
Information Management, Knowledge v. Information
Education Requires Continual Learning
Paradigm Shifts Tricky Takes Courage to Go First
Tofflers Dehumanizing Backbreaking Labor Accepted in Gym
Secrets Intelligence Understanding from Information in Meetings Calls
Communication Biggest Risk in Enterprise Paradigm Shift of Millennium
Toffler, Alvin, Culture Shock New Age Management Continual Learning E
Freidman, Milton Tyranny of Status Quo Bureaucracy Uses Authority to
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2714 - Summary/Objective
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271501 - Follow up ref SDS 18 0000
271502 -
271503 - Reviewed article on the authors of a popular book, Culture Shock,
271504 - received from John Kahl. The article, and the Toffler's ideas in
271505 - their book, seem to support concepts in POIMS and Communication
271506 - Metrics. The article suggests our idea of converting information into
271507 - knowledge is a cutting edge concept, similar to the article in Wired
271508 - reviewed on 950909. ref SDS 20 0001.
271509 -
271510 - [On 950927 cited Toffler's Future Shock in meeting at Intel.
271511 - ref SDS 21 3095
271513 - ..
271514 - [On 010720 author Mary Eisenhart requests adding copyright notice
271515 - and updating the original source. ref SDS 41 0001
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2718 - Progress
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271901 - This is an interview that covers several of the Toffler's books and
271902 - more generally their ideas. The Tofflers expand or clarify points
271903 - raised by the author, Mary Eisenhart, who conducted an excellent
271904 - interview, published by Microtimes.
271905 -
271906 - [On 010720 author Mary Eisenhart requests adding copyright notice
271907 - and updating the original source. ref SDS 41 0001
271908 -
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271911 - Information Overload New Reality that Threatens Continued Progress
271912 -
271913 - Alvin and Heidi Toffler are a husband and wife team (like Milton and
271914 - Rose Friedman) who came to prominence in 1970 with publication of
271915 - their book....
271916 -
271917 - Future Shock
271918 -
271919 -
271920 - ...see ref OF 5 0001, which explains the impact when change occurs
271921 - faster than people can absorb it.
271922 -
271923 - Tofflers anticipated a core concept in the "New World Order" (NWO)
271924 - paper that the "...human mind has created a world for which it is
271925 - not well suited. ref OF 3 7515 Increasing the amount and speed of
271926 - information increases errors, because human mind is overwhelmed
271927 - and cannot cope. ref OF 5 005Q They say too much information
271928 - about anything prevents people from functioning. ref OF 5 07N6
271929 - They do not explain that prior to not being able to function,
271930 - people struggle to summarize, so they can function, and this
271931 - greatly reduces effectiveness, causing a lot of mistakes that are
271932 - hidden, i.e., the meaning of communication in meetings, calls and
271933 - documents, including conflicts from information that does not
271934 - align with objectives, requirements and commitments, is a secret
271935 - from people who attend the meetings, make the calls and handle the
271936 - documents, as explained in POIMS. ref OF 1 V8P1 The "fog to war"
271937 - from information overload hides the need for good management
271938 - practice and thus prevents implementing Drucker's call for
271939 - deliberative analysis, explained in POIMS, ref OF 1 2300, and then
271940 - meaning drift, explained in NWO, ref OF 3 9449, compounds
271941 - erroneous understanding into mistakes, loss, confict, crisis and
271942 - calamity. This supports the NWO analysis that since human
271943 - evolution is slow, the capacity of the human mind is constant;
271944 - therefore, increasing the speed of information becomes
271945 - increasingly overwhelming, absent tools for converting information
271946 - into knowledge. ref OF 3 4925
271947 -
271948 - [On 951004 culture shock using SDS records reflects ignorance,
271949 - fear and denial. ref SDS 22 ZQ4L
271951 - ..
271952 - [On 951006 example of cultural shock in architecture.
271953 - ref SDS 23 C2SK
271955 - ..
271956 - [On 001219 example of speed that is initially overwhelming,
271957 - then is accomodated as enabling technologies are developed.
271958 - ref SDS 38 OY4F
271960 - ..
271961 - [On 960311 book "Lights, Camera, War, relate cultural challenge
271962 - of faster information, beginning with telegraph. ref SDS 24
271963 - 9405
271965 - ..
271966 - [On 991007 communication biggest risk in enterprise, letter to
271967 - Dave Vannier. ref SDS 30 7920
271969 - ..
271970 - [On 011003 IT engineer, AI professional shocked information
271971 - overload paralyzes productivity; hopeless quagmire of
271972 - complexity. ref SDS 42 EC5N
271974 - ..
271975 - [On 030708 Gary notes that good management practices
271976 - are "hidden in plain sight" by information overload.
271977 - ref SDS 47 GC9G
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SUBJECTS
New Age Business, Self-Actualization
Empowerment Diffuses Authority, Flatter Organizations
Feedback Critical to Communication
Empowerment to Accomplish Good Management Consistently
Empowerment Causes Entropy, Needs Metrics
Empowerment Do Something Even If Wrong Open Source Management
Theory X Y Incentives Attribution Credit Accountablity Binary Forces
New Age Management Continual Learning Empowerment Improves Command Co
Freidman, Milton Tyranny of Status Quo Bureaucracy Uses Authority to
Tyranny of Status Quo Milton Freidman Bureaucracy Uses Authority to
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391302 - Tyranny of Status Quo Solved by Empowerment to Experiement
391303 - Empowerment Allocates Authority Autonomy Conflicts Command Control
391304 - New Age & Empowerment Supports Feedback for Communication Metrics
391305 -
391306 - The Tofflers offer a rationale for the "New Age" and "empowerment"
391307 - movement, ref OF 5 02MZ, striving to improve management practices that
391308 - command and control people, considered previously on 940509.
391309 - ref SDS 10 7499 "Feel Good" management explained on 911123
391310 - illustrates empowerment misapplied as license for people to do
391311 - whatever they want rather than command and control of the work to save
391312 - lives, time and money. ref SDS 4 1331 On 931130 Peter Drucker
391313 - explained Theory X and Y as binary forces of control and empowermnet
391314 - in management. ref SDS 7 9677
391316 - ..
391317 - [On 960321 WSJ article calls for "Lead by Listening" ref SDS 25
391318 - 0001
391320 - ..
391321 - Deming supported Drucker's call for continual improvement, reviewed on
391322 - 931130, ref SDS 6 1504; but, Deming had to leave the country to get
391323 - his ideas implemented first in Japan, then the US followed Japan's
391324 - leadership in gravitating toward TQM, reported on 931223. ref SDS 8
391325 - 0001
391327 - ..
391328 - Empowerment strives to solve the problem posed by Milton Friedman, who
391329 - describes the "tyranny of the status quo" where powerful cultural
391330 - forces resist improvement. Bureaucracy fosters an innovation loop by
391331 - requiring use of established methods and technology. Below, the
391332 - Tofflers propose continual learning, ref SDS 0 2222, to enable Senge's
391333 - model of the "learning organization," reported on 930216. ref SDS 5
391334 - 8998, however, command and control of people prevents improvement
391335 - through continual learning from pilot testing to experiment with new
391336 - methods to improve command and control of the work. Information
391337 - overload is another powerful force that maintains the status quo by
391338 - preventing people from investing time for deliberative analysis to
391339 - study that improves understanding daily work.
391341 - ..
391342 - [On 980307 Andy Grove at Intel defines "empowerment" for people
391343 - to experiment by pilot testing to discover new tools and
391344 - methods for improving command and control of the work for
391345 - saving lives, time and money by getting things done correctly,
391346 - on time and within budget.
391348 - ..
391349 - [On 990517 Innovator's Dilemma reflects culture forces that
391350 - stifle innovation in big organizations. ref SDS 28 4077
391352 - ..
391353 - [On 990713 information overload -- executives do not have time
391354 - to study the 1st para explaining a new idea for working
391355 - intelligently for solving problem of information overload.
391356 - ref SDS 29 9900
391358 - ..
391359 - [On 010719 software engineer experienced managing big projects
391360 - for Aerospace company and NASA reports difficulty innovating in
391361 - large organizations. ref SDS 40 LR73
391363 - ..
391364 - [On 011006 Gary worries that improving management is a hopeless
391365 - task. ref SDS 43 EL5F
391367 - ..
391368 - [On 020927 the movie "Executive Suite" illustrates theory x and
391369 - y management methods; bureaucracy maintains the status quo
391370 - using power to command and control people, which stifles
391371 - experimenting for innovation to improve tools and methods that
391372 - increase command control of the work, essential to avoid
391373 - obsolesence and extinction; empowerment encourages innovation
391374 - to improve command and control of the work that enables
391375 - viability and survival under under new realities of a new world
391376 - order, provided organizations do not collapse into chaos before
391377 - the future arrives. ref SDS 46 6C3J
391379 - ..
391380 - [On 030826 NASA illustrates power of bureaucracy to prevent
391381 - improvement essential for success. ref SDS 48 8K4G
391383 - ..
391384 - [On 040203 bureaucracy descends into rote command and control
391385 - of people that prevents experimenting to discover (i.e., learn
391386 - about) technology and methods that save lives, time and money
391387 - by improving command and control of the work. ref SDS 51 E44K
391388 - and ref SDS 51 MB7K and ref SDS 51 8Y5I
391390 - ..
391391 - [On 040214 Howard Aikin frames lesson learned that good ideas
391392 - are strongly resisted by the status quo. ref SDS 52 N87M
391394 - ..
391395 - [On 040802 Gary does not have time to work on explaining SDS
391396 - support for "intelligence" in an ASB filing to set a standard
391397 - for using SDS at aerospace company. ref SDS 54 0001
391399 - ..
391400 - [On 040312 professor Schombert cites Thomas Khun noting
391401 - paradigms, belief, faith in existing ideas block consideration
391402 - of new ideas until people gain experience to create grudging
391403 - acceptance, then a new paradigm forms. ref SDS 53 3D7F
391405 - ..
391406 - The Tofflers note the importance of feedback, which is a core aspect
391407 - of "intelligence" called out in POIMS, ref OF 1 2200, and explained in
391408 - NWO on the value of Communication Metrics. ref OF 3 0936.
391410 - ..
391411 - The Toffler's seem to present "empowerment" as granting authority
391412 - and permitting autonomy (i.e., independence), contrary to
391413 - traditional "command and control" management structures. This
391414 - view is predicated on organizational imperatives put forward by
391415 - adherents of TQM and Reengineering, reviewed on 950909.
391416 - ref SDS 20 7499 and ref SDS 20 Z9WP
391418 - ..
391419 - On 950909 New Age advocates recognize disatisfaction will occur
391420 - because everyone cannot achieve self-actualization in equal
391421 - measure. ref SDS 10 KO4G
391423 - ..
391424 - This form of "empowerment" is not a "new" idea. Organizational
391425 - tinkering has been a common practice since the time of the
391426 - Pharohs, the Romans, the Catholic Church, the military, Ford, GM,
391427 - IBM. In the age of the Information Highway, fiddling with the
391428 - organization chart is tantamount to rearranging the chairs on the
391429 - deck of the Titanic.
391431 - ..
391432 - People have always and will continue to be granted authority to
391433 - accomplish the job. It is basically an ad hoc decision predicated
391434 - on performance, personality and circumstances. People make
391435 - mistakes in not granting adequate authority, as in the case of
391436 - revising the organization chart by eliminating project managers,
391437 - discussed on 950705. ref SDS 16 2165 People, also, make mistakes
391438 - in granting too much authority, as in the case of the fellow who
391439 - recently lost $4 billion in just a few days trading derivatives.
391441 - ..
391442 - The vision of "empowerment" supported by POIMS technology is to
391443 - lift the capacity to think, remember and communicate so people can
391444 - convert information into knowledge faster and more accurately.
391445 - ref OF 1 6528 This is the only true source of new power to do a
391446 - better job, and thereby earn greater authority and autonomy, as
391447 - explained on 950428 on improving ability to only remember the gist
391448 - of things, 2%, ref SDS 15 423G and in the same record explaining
391449 - advantage of life style change to improve memory. ref SDS 15 0860
391450 -
391451 - [On 001012 engineers want to start in wrong direction in order
391452 - to do what they want. ref SDS 36 PT5M
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SUBJECTS
Farming model for Investing Grow Knowledge
Invest Intellectual Capital Like Planting Seeds That Grow Larger Crop
Communication Manager
Knowledge Worker Communication Manager
Knowledge Worker Organizes Links Aligns Correlations Implications
Work Role Com Manager Makes KM Effective Using SDS
Difficult to Calculate
Cost Savings Benefits
Civilization Shows Cost Benefits SDS Knowledge Management
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491201 - ..
491202 - Investing Intellectual Capital - Farming Leads to Knowledge Worker
491203 -
491204 - The Tofflers' recognize the critical productivity lesson of farming,
491205 - ref OF 5 8VYS, see analogy developed on 950426. ref SDS 13 8403 They
491206 - do not seem to appreciate the same productivity gains can be realized
491207 - by creating a specialized class of people with new skills to invest
491208 - intellectual capital, explained in POIMS, ref OF 1 1101, using
491209 - Communication Metrics, developed on 950327, ref SDS 12 6118,
491210 -
491211 - [See similar argument developed using writing in discussion with
491212 - Intel, ref SDS 21 line 793.]
491214 - ..
491215 - Knowledge work distinguished from conventional labor is discussed,
491216 - ref OF 5 05BN, and in relation to processing information and data.
491217 - ref OF 5 06FT It is not distinguished from Information Technology
491218 - (IT), nor as a process of converting information into knowledge by
491219 - investing intellectual captial.
491220 -
491221 -
491223 - ..
491224 - Communication Analyst - "New Age" Farmer Solves Information Overload
491225 -
491226 - The Toffler's recognize the phenomena of rising information density
491227 - that overwhelms human span of attention. ref OF 5 07N6, discussed in
491228 - the NWO paper, ref OF 3 1675, and that a solution must assemble
491229 - relevant information. ref OF 5 06FT They do not offer nor cite
491230 - methods and tools to accomplish this objective.
491232 - ..
491233 - This supports the need for two things called out in the NWO paper.
491234 - ref OF 3 4224
491235 -
491236 - 1. New management science with skills and tools to improve
491237 - understanding and follow up, e.g., communication metrics.
491238 -
491239 - 2. New work role of "communication analyst" to support daily
491240 - work with a record created in a timely and thorough manner
491241 - that avoids conventional "guess and gossip" management
491242 - practice. ref OF 3 3348
491244 - ..
491245 - Toffler's give an example of this new work role. ref OF 5 07J6
491247 - ..
491248 - The budget justification relies on the same principle by which the
491249 - community employs specialists called "farmers" who regularly invest in
491250 - corn, cabbage and soybean fields in order to free up the time for
491251 - others to attend important meetings and make phone calls. These
491252 - meetings, phone calls and e-mail constitute a new kind of field
491253 - planted along the the Information Highway, which require the same kind
491254 - of tending that farmers give to working the land. I call tending
491255 - these new fields "Communication Metrics."
491257 - ..
491258 - [On 991217 civilization is cost benefit study for adding
491259 - "intelligence" to information. ref SDS 33 0320
491260 -
491261 -
491263 - ..
491264 - Evolution of Management Over 5,000 Years
491265 -
491266 - This reflects the correlation between the practice of management and
491267 - the development of communication methods over 5,000 years, discussed
491268 - on 950427. ref SDS 14 0740
491269 -
491270 -
491272 - ..
491273 - Information v. Knowledge
491274 -
491275 - The Tofflers seem to use information and knowledge interchangeably.
491276 - ref OF 5 06FT, and at ref OF 5 06BY This overlooks the crucial step
491277 - of converting information into knowledge that leads to misguided use
491278 - of technology.
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SUBJECTS
Teach Thinking Changes Education Paradigm to Continual Learning Makin
Continual Learning Case Studies
Learning Derived from Automating Traceability
Thinking Improved by SDS, Linking Summary to Detail, Past to Present
Literacy Orality KM Dilemma Deferred or Immediate Feedback Reward
Meta-skills Literacy to Learn Higher Skills
SDS Enables New Skill of Adding Intelligence to Information for Growin
Organizational Learning Capture Intelligence Organization Analysis Al
Report Organizational Memory Who What When Where Why How Memory Histo
Tofflers Learning Meta-skills Literacy Reading Writing Math Foundatio
Proactive Management Gary Plans to Initiate Solutions Take Responsib
21st Century Skills Learning Teach Thinking Changes Education Paradi
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731502 - Continual Learning Engine of Civilization Needs Better Literacy
731503 - Teach "Thinking" - Continual Learning through Literacy Skills
731504 -
731505 - Follow up ref SDS 5 8998.
731506 -
731507 - Toffler's recommend teaching children skills of continual learning to
731508 - expand career knowledge beyond traditional trades like gardening,
731509 - sewing, medicine, law, teaching, advertising, auto repair, computer
731510 - science, and so on. They say continual learning is a "meta-skill,"
731511 - which is not easy to teach. ref OF 5 06L7 The Tofflers list two
731512 - examples of "meta-skills that empower people to learn new trades for
731513 - making a living...
731514 -
731515 - 1. thinking
731517 - ..
731518 - 2. Internet
731520 - ..
731521 - Toffler's call for continual learning requires skills for deliberative
731522 - analysis enabled by SDS discussed at Stanford on 900703, ref SDS 3
731523 - 1716, and explained in POIMS. ref OF 1 2300 Requires "empowerment" to
731524 - overcome the "Tyranny of the Status Quo" reported by Milton Friedman,
731525 - discussed above. ref SDS 0 0581
731527 - ..
731528 - Peter Senge at MIT calls for a "learning organization," reviewed on
731529 - 930216. ref SDS 5 8998
731530 -
731531 - [On 011102 organizational learning developed by Senge antecedent to
731532 - Knowledge Management based on studies of building aircraft during
731533 - WWII, and later an article published in 1962 that won a Nobel Prize
731534 - on improving productivity through learning and experience.
731535 - ref SDS 44 M25K
731537 - ..
731538 - [On 130427 1038 Open Colleges offers 18-month e-learning advanced
731539 - education program for certificate in project management; applies
731540 - Tofflers vision of continual learning with training and support.
731541 - ref SDS 56 XQ5L
731543 - ..
731544 - Teaching children to "think" is a core objective of civilization
731545 - embodied by alphabet technology and mathematics. The 3 Rs of....
731546 -
731547 - reading,
731548 - writing and
731549 - arithmetic
731550 -
731551 - ...provide foundational literacy skills for learning specific trades
731552 - like chemestry, medicine, engineering, lawn mowing, boat repair, and
731553 - broadcast announcer.
731554 -
731555 - [On 991108 alphabetic mind marked turning point in civilization
731556 - by inventing literacy that lifts the ability to think.
731557 - ref SDS 32 5628
731559 - ..
731560 - [On 011219 discussed at Stanford role of education to enable
731561 - continual learning through deliberative analysis that improves
731562 - study and traditional literacy. ref SDS 45 JJ6J
731564 - ..
731565 - [On 040102 continual learning requires continual education that
731566 - connects new experience with theory and practice that explains
731567 - consistent results. ref SDS 50 O97F
731569 - ..
731570 - [On 041213 Edison credited for using contemporaneous notes to
731571 - support plan, perform, report discovery process of the scientific
731572 - method. ref SDS 55 DK4N
731574 - ..
731575 - Meta-skills to use alphabet technology for continual learning are
731576 - difficult to teach, because they require a front-end investment that
731577 - brings deferred rewards. People like to learn accounting, engineering
731578 - and plumbing, because there are jobs that pay wages for using these
731579 - skills, i.e., the reward is immediate, rather than deferred.
731581 - ..
731582 - The Toffler's do not discuss the character of learning in the
731583 - interview reported today. On 890809 discussed with Morris advantages
731584 - of the SDS intelligence process that supports continual learning by
731585 - strengthening listening skills. ref SDS 2 CJ9J
731587 - ..
731588 - Learning is derived from communication that adds intelligence to
731589 - information from daily experience, hence, the homile.....
731590 -
731591 -
731592 - listen and learn
731594 - ..
731595 - Tofflers recognize that new realities in a faster, more complex world
731596 - are emerging that will require proactive, i.e., continual learning,
731597 - which is enabled by SDS, as explained in POIMS. ref OF 1 3742 These
731598 - issues are embodied in published standards for good management,
731599 - reviewed on 950721. ref SDS 17 1740
731601 - ..
731602 - Added reference to continual learning to NWO, citing the Tofflers, and
731603 - correlation with intelligence and communication. ref OF 3 TQ4O
731605 - ..
731606 - [On 971202 "listening" strengthened by SDS. ref SDS 27 2425
731608 - ..
731609 - [On 980307 Andy Grove takes copious notes to avoid ambiguity of
731610 - mental maps that cause mistakes, delay and extra cost.
731612 - ..
731613 - [On 991222 Doug Engelbart proposes continual learning practice
731614 - using an ABC improvement model. ref SDS 34 3961
731615 -
731616 - [On 001114 Doug explains primary objective to empower ability
731617 - for people to increase competence for solving complex
731618 - problems. ref SDS 37 SU3L
731620 - ..
731621 - [On 010114 example using SDS records on the Internet to
731622 - empower continual learning that improves competence for
731623 - solving complex problems. ref SDS 39 0001
731625 - ..
731626 - [On 991010 Gutenberg contributed the most to civilization over
731627 - the past millennium by inventing printing press that was an
731628 - enabling technology that magnified the power of literacy.
731629 - ref SDS 31 2548
731631 - ..
731632 - POIMs technology supports a new skill for adding "intelligence" to
731633 - information that grows new knowledge by lifting the capacity to think,
731634 - remember and communicate. ref OF 1 3742 These appear to be
731635 - "meta-skills" called out by the Tofflers.
731637 - ..
731638 - Executive training reviewed on 940508, also, calls for developing
731639 - "learning skills" ref SDS 9 3381
731641 - ..
731642 - Continual learning is a requirement of sound management, see ISO 10006
731643 - reviewed on 950721. ref SDS 17 2846
731644 -
731645 - [On 000729 listening, learning and leadership supported by SDS
731646 - and Com Metrics. ref SDS 35 0006
731648 - ..
731649 - Toffler's give a good example of thinking as "modeling" ideas,
731650 - ref OF 5 MO6K, which is a form of using paradigms as templates for
731651 - decision support, explained in NWO... ref OF 3 7337
731652 -
731653 - [On 950927 disucssed with Intel, ref SDS 21 3095, and developed
731654 - further on 951004. ref SDS 22 ZQ4L
731656 - ..
731657 - The Tofflers advocate teaching kids to plug into the Internet,
731658 - ref OF 5 06L7, but do not point out that merely chasing more
731659 - information leads to the problem of information overload, which
731660 - they warn is damaging. see above, ref SDS 0 4E3N
731662 - ..
731663 - This reflects lack of awareness that "information" comes from
731664 - external sources, what we hear, see, read; whereas, knowledge is a
731665 - resource constructed within the human mind that connects and
731666 - "fits" new information into what is already there. So the
731667 - modeling notion of "thinking" is in the right direction, but
731668 - plugging into the Internet fosters the very information overload
731669 - that better "thinking" is aimed at avoiding.
731671 - ..
731672 - Jeremy Campbell's book, "The Improbable Machine" presents a model of
731673 - how the human mind makes connections that constitute "thinking." SDS
731674 - calls it linking and citations. The ISO 10006 standard uses the term
731675 - "traceability." Can we teach kids how to make connections and to get
731676 - them back when they are needed, so they are equipped for "continual
731677 - learning" called for in the ISO 10006 criteria.
731679 - ..
731680 - Here it seems that Henry Kissenger's idea of teaching children to read
731681 - and write "text" rather than spending so much time absorbing
731682 - "pictures," is critical for thinking, to overcome the tyranny of the
731683 - Information Highway, per analysis on 940609. ref SDS 11 3399 The SDS
731684 - linking tools uniquely provide application of traceability.
731685 -
731686 - [On 010113 example using SDS records on the Internet to empower
731687 - continual learning that improves competence for solving complex
731688 - problems. ref SDS 39 0001
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SUBJECTS
Dehumanizing Backbreaking Labor Accepted in Gym
Labor Dehumanizing Backbreaking Bad Compared to Knowledge Work, But A
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760501 - ..
760502 - Backbreaking, Dehumanizing Labor
760503 -
760504 - The Tofflers' observe that factories from prior eras were inefficient,
760505 - because they required significant physical effort, which the Tofflers'
760506 - call "dehumanizing," to perform various work. ref OF 5 04XF
760507 -
760508 - I am curious about the idea that strenuous physical effort is
760509 - "dehumanizing." Humans have physical capacities and the body
760510 - itself requires resources to sustain itself. It seems eminently
760511 - human to apply human capacities to sustain the human body. Deon
760512 - Sanders just signed a contract so he will be permitted to perform
760513 - hard labor for a lot of money. People pay lots of money to belong
760514 - to health clubs so they can go apply their physical capacities,
760515 - precisely because the tasks they are performing to sustain their
760516 - existence does not place enough strain on their body to sustain its
760517 - capacities.
760518 - ..
760519 - Why is it dehumanizing to lift a sack of concrete or move an
760520 - inventory of supplies at a factory, but it is not dehumanizing to
760521 - extend three times as much effort at a gym?
760522 -
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