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...reassurance is false, because computers don't take people's jobs by acting like people. There's no mistaking an automated-teller machine for a bank teller. Bank tellers can tell cats from dogs and play tennis--which they have plenty of time to do after they lose their jobs to ATMs. And the Website where I just bought some running shoes looks nothing at all like a salesperson at the Athlete's Foot. Similarly, if given the choice between lunch with an accountant and lunch with Turbotax, who among us would opt for Turbotax? (O.K., maybe a few people...
...human vs. machine, as it was with Kasparov. It's one kind of tool vs. another kind of tool.Thus the steam drill wasn't really challenging John Henry; it was challenging his sledgehammer. It's the guy using the steam drill who was challenging John Henry. Similarly, the bank teller's competitor is not so much the atm as the people who design the machine or those who build it or service it. Functionally speaking, they're just bank tellers using new tools. And that's all the old bank teller really needs: new tools--skill as an ATM programmer...
...novel with this much grievous personal history needs comic relief. Just obliges with Mrs. Pfister, fortune-teller to the Washington elite, whose sessions are bugged by government agents, and the "Venerables," a pair of aged columnists who "had been out of step with every administration since Eisenhower's." These geezers and other faded Washingtonians in Echo House are more than welcomed. Just is a sharp-eyed observer and acerbic commentator, but he is also a bighearted host to all the has-beens and will-bes gathered in this roomy and inviting novel...
This was the only time all weekend that the Crimson bats were on fire. Sophomore catcher Terri Teller smacked a homer, Abeles had two hits and three RBIs and sophomore Karen Rice's RBI in the bottom of the fifth ensured that the mercy rule would be activated...
...think the thing was that we got the inning going, and once we scored one run we were able to score more," Teller said...