On 17/09/2014, at 15:42, Stanislav Roudavski wrote:
> My own field notes are as follows:
>
> - Tools change before expertise (or virtuosity) can be developed.
> - Tools are more powerful but users are increasingly dilettante.
> - Tools are more universal and the outcomes lose diversity.
> - Stable tools (math, old programming languages, black-box designing) replace local responses.
>
> Culminating in the "Roudavski Principle": " - technology matures at the expense of user competence - ".
>
This is what is AKA "The automation paradox", of which we have witnessed some devasting effects:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/aerospace/aviation/air-france-flight-447-crash-caused-by-a-combination-of-factors
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