Hello Terry,
My knowledge of oil and gas processing plant design is lacking. On the
other hand, I've spent enough time with the Adobe package to know that
neither Illustrator nor Indesign have ever made a decision for me. I agree
we probably mean different things with 'automating'. Illustrator makes my
life a lot easier and my work much faster. But it doesn't design things for
me.
The reductions in numbers of employees (not all of them were designers) in
design companies does not necessarily correlate with improvements in
quality of design detail.
Of course this day and age any coder worth his salt can write an algorithm
that apes Shakespeare's style of sonnets. Same thing for novels,
advertisement copy, social media posts, and the like[1]. But only a very
narrow perspective of what literature is would consider those texts worth
reading.
There is more to designing than making decisions and information
processing.
[1] There is even a (hilarious) website capable of generating automatic
"post-modernist" papers http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Eduardo corte-real <[log in to unmask]>
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> Terry,
> You wrote: "the consequences are visible by the reductions in numbers of
> designers needed by companies (remember the shift from 200 person design
> teams to 20 persons to 5?)”
> Is this a good thing?
> Which side are you in?
> Best,
> Eduardo
>
>
> > No dia 05/02/2016, às 12:39, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
> >
> > the consequences are visible by the reductions in numbers of designers
> needed by companies (remember the shift from 200 person design teams to 20
> persons to 5?)
>
>
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