Of, course, In all this wonderful article about all this wonderful
automatic impersonal technology, I read nothing whatsoever even hinting of
any concern about its use by people who cannot see to read the displays,
who can not physically reach the interface by which you operate the
displays, or who can not understand the language to be used for the
messages that will appear on those displays.  Nothing is said about what
happens or to whom you might go should problems arise with all the
wonderful machinery.  At least the article had the good sense not to dwell
too much on the most gleeful aspect of the whole thing from the standpoint
of people for whom the only important information is that information
which appears between the dollar sign and the decimal point on the bottom
line of the financial statement.  Get rid of all those people and you
don't have to look at paychecks going out on a regular basis.

Automated airlines can join automated banks, automated radio stations,
automated food service, automated this and automated that, and soon we can
wonder where the money might come from for buying all those products and
services to be automagically delivered by all that automated technology.


Brent Reynolds
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