atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS RE: The decreasingly meaningful authoring experience
- From: "SUNTER Bede" <Bede_SUNTER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:49:19 +1000
Howard said:
"I see it as reflecting a mistaken view of technology"
Hit the nail on the head old bean!
I've often thought that management's view of application software
amounts to something like being able to switch on a power saw, throw it
into a pile of timber and expect a coffeee table to emerge at the end.
Intelligent results are only achieved through intelligent people using
intelligent technology intelligently.
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Subject: atw: SEC: UNCLASS RE: The decreasingly meaningful authoring
experience
Thanks, Steve. I don't think I can have been around for your earlier
post on
this topic.
I'm interested in this not so much because of its impact on our
employment
prospects but because I see it as reflecting a mistaken view of
technology,
in which the human role has been suppressed. I don't have time now to go
into it properly, but I think it's important that we keep in mind that
*all*
technology is ultimately a product of human minds and that information
is
not a thing sitting out there independent of human existence but a
record of
human activity, enquiry and research. And yes, a template is something
that
has an author, and I hope such things are designed by people who know
something about writing rather than by some of the software engineers
whose
attempts at writing I have to decipher! I'd even say the reports that
your
scripts put out are in some important senses authored.
I don't have time to say any more on this now, but think it is an
important
topic that's not just of theoretical interest but also could directly
affect
the future of technology and its coexistence with us.
Howard
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