If you're going to read just one thing about #Tech today, let it be this.
Great piece by @Mer__edith on the historical context that underpins #automation, with a focus on Charles Babbage.
I'd long suspected that today's overemphasis on quantitative metrics was for maintaining control at a distance.
This piece shows how the overemphasis of the surveilled & quantifiable (and neglect of everything else) is a relic of colonial labor needs, but a relic we still revere.
