Dan’s Reviews > Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation > Status Update

This is a focused look at the post war era of industrial automation, rather than a wide ranging overview of all mechanization, just for clarity of expectations. But within that particular historical moment, Noble provides really insightful analysis of the driving factors behind the development of automation, usually focused more on control and taking away workers control than short term profit.

I highlighted more in the preface of this book than the 135 pages of Power and Progress by the two MIT liberal idiots. Putting that down for this was definitely the right call.