) as a symbol manipulator. She mused about the possibilities for a much broader range of automation beyond speeding up calculation, including creative tasks such as composing music.
Diebold established one of the first consulting companies advising businesses on how to adopt modern computers. An entire new industry and entire new breed of knowledge workers followed in his path. The author of the report was a Senior Industrial Economist at SRI’s Electronics Industries Research Group, and a “recognized authority on the subject of business automation.” His bio blurb indicates that he “also worked closely with two of the Institute’s engineering laboratories in developing his thinking for this study.
Regardless of the women’s liberation movement of his day, the author could not see beyond the creation of a two-tier system in which some women would continue to perform dull and unchallenging tasks, while other women would be “liberated” into a fulfilling new job category of “administrative support specialist.” In this 1976 forecast, there are no women managers.
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