IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Fault in editing technology

· Socialist Challenge No. 186, 26 February 1981 · p. 7 of the scan · 208 words

The scan: sc-n186-feb-26-1981.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 7 of the scan

coverage I WOULD like to correct such thing. an 'oil telechiric pipeline'. The human control technology described in the book is a telechiric device ('hands-at-a-distance') for maintenance workers on vl pipemies.

Thirdly I originally wrote that in a planned car-body welders may (not would) be happy to transfer their skills to a robot device. I was arguing against the implication Mike's book that skills are always to be preserved — question whether would in socialist SOCICLV want to retain their skills oi call licw ulic But I would definitely agree with Mike that a vital factor in the development of technology under socialism are the wishes of the Comrade Collier should back his tactical prescription and look at the basic programmatic questions PAUL ANDREWS, London workers whose skills are anecleu.

Maybe such Inac. curacies in article could be avoided if the edited version of a signed article could be checked the person who originally wrote it. not a Finally Architect or Bee Cal obtained from Hand and Brain, 95 Sussex Place, Slough NN, Bucks, price £2.50 For single copies, and 10p fo each additional copy. All proceeds go towards the Lucas Aerospace Corporate Plan.

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