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Keyboard Maestro is a powerful macro program for Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard which has received glowing reviews.
"But information networks matter more than the devices we use to access them, or the applications that run on those devices. The key to the automation of knowledge work that Schrage righly prescribes isn’t learning how to use smartphones or tablets. Rather, it’s learning and then applying core principles that govern information networks. "
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Not even a decade ago, organizations had systems analysts design and impose norms demanding total employee compliance. Technology was as much an enforcement tool as a process platform. A decade hence, dynamic optimization will be an ongoing negotiation between the local expertise of the digitally-deviced worker and the analytic prowess of the centralizing system. Of course there will be top-down diktats but a growing number of them will come from the tricks, shortcuts, and hacks workers use to make themselves more efficient.
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Atul Gawande's best-selling Checklist Manifesto beautifully articulated how even the most brilliant and conscientious knowledge workers should rely on checklists to make sure they're doing the right thing at the right time in the right way. These checklists are ideal ingredients for the algorithms and apps that make effective auto-automation possible. As a former student of "artificial intelligence" software, I'd observe that formal and informal checklists enable simple but powerful "expert systems" to emerge. When expert system checklists get married to the social media networking, photographic, and GPS "intelligence" of digital devices, the opportunities for auto-automation explode.
Unfortunately, thoughtless automation is driving the day. If we don't get off this train, it might have the same results it has had in other sectors of the economy: an unsustainable economy with high unemployment—and a lot of cheap, plastic crap.
"To a large extend, whether you are a lawyer, a medical doctor, a professor or a politician, you already are obsolete. We are just waiting for someone to write the software that will replace you. You replacement won’t pass the Turing test, but nobody will care."
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