atw: SEC: UNCLASS RE: The decreasingly meaningful authoring experienc e
- From: "Silcock, Howard DR" <Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austechwriter (austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:41:24 +1000
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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