He caused alarm during the 1950s and '60s by suggesting, erroneously, that automatic machinery would lead to mass unemployment.
In the 1840s he devised automatic machinery for punching patterns of holes in bridge and boiler plate.
In some sense these memorials aim for this almost automatic machinery of remembrance, hinting that the vicissitudes of merely human memory are not to be trusted.
The further development of automatic machinery, labour-saving devices, and automatic-control systems led to an increase in the use of pneumatics.
Describing his design as architecture that "blooms like a flower", Godsell admitted his nerves that – despite finishing on time and on budget – the pavilion's automatic machinery might not work on the day.
According to Keynes, the nineteenth century had unleashed such a torrent of technological innovation—"electricity, petrol, steel, rubber, cotton, the chemical industries, automatic machinery and the methods of mass production"—that further growth was inevitable.
Much of the increase in productivity that has been achieved by mass production is a direct result of the development and use of automatic machinery and processes to supplement human effort.
According to Keynes, the nineteenth century had unleashed such a torrent of technological innovation — "electricity, petrol, steel, rubber, cotton, the chemical industries, automatic machinery and the methods of mass production" — that further growth was inevitable.
Thus, as technology advances, that part of the production operation that is most fatiguing, is least satisfying, and takes minimum advantage of the mental and physical flexibility of human effort is replaced by automatic machinery.
For NDRE the station was a chance to apply its latest minicomputer, the Simulation for Automatic Machinery (SAM).
