Operator Speaking by Zachary Constantine
 

Posts Tagged ‘failure’

Operator Roles, System Complexity, and Failure

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Automation does not remove humans but tends to redefine their roles: operators become concerned with maintenance, repair and higher level supervisory control and decision making. Sociological and memetic organisms supplant individual consciousness. Operators relegated to central control roomsCase in Point: 1977 NYC Blackout Indirect Information Operator followed prescribed procedures But electrical system was brought to [...]

Progeny (Luddites have already won!)

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Perhaps crayons are not easily digested? Hygiene. … and not his knuckles? Yes! Haven’t you been watching television?

Priorities (Luddites Have Already Won!)

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

A conversation happening at this moment: Will you stop singing that song already? [Hazardous memetic waste?] Now hurry and lose some weight while I get taller so we can watch some stuff online and then make some babies! … wait, how’re we gonna pay for all this?

Signs Of Failure (Luddites Have Already Won!)

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Because the internet revolves around you – and you suck.

in(f|t)ernal monologue

Monday, April 28th, 2008

There is an existential force which exceeds the sensory possibilities of day-to-day reality and the limits of imagined perception. You never get back to your past – half deja vu, half future shock – rekindles dead memories and ideas – resurrects and violently awakens a dead self – perhaps I really have been trapped here [...]