Comment on Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)parentComments−forinti1yData processing by itself was a major leap in productivity.My city ran its payroll on a single computer with 64KB of RAM. This would have required weeks of work from a whole team of bureaucrats.−profsummergig1yI remember armies of "stenographers" and "bookkeepers" in the central areas of office buildings.
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Data processing by itself was a major leap in productivity.
My city ran its payroll on a single computer with 64KB of RAM. This would have required weeks of work from a whole team of bureaucrats.
I remember armies of "stenographers" and "bookkeepers" in the central areas of office buildings.