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Kicking Robots, by James Vincent (harpers.org)
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A Harpers contributer does the legwork and gets a head start on deflating the next dumb hype cycle.

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds a bit like a Swedish heiress to Lillian Gilbreth. My wife has had some mobility issues and has lamented that the work that went into designing more ergonomic and accessible kitchens in the 40s and 50s was largely abandoned and ignored in more recent homes.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

In addition to jointly running Gilbreth, Incorporated, their business and engineering consulting firm, Lillian and Frank wrote numerous publications as sole authors, as well as co-authoring multiple books and more than fifty papers on a variety of scientific topics. However, in their joint publications, Lillian was not always named as a co-author, possibly due to publishers' concerns about naming a female writer. Although her credentials included a doctorate in psychology, she was less frequently credited in their joint publications than her husband, who did not attend college.[11][25]

Infuriating