Productivity has collapsed in the last 10 years
Donât make me tap the sign
âThe rate of profit is about to fall off a cliff unless we come up with another computer again, pls helpâ
Broke: Thinking 2.0
Woke: Industry 4.0
Bespoke: Rate of Profit 0.0
Perpetual growth is the ideology of a cancer. Maybe we can do this without serving the tumorâs interests?
Industry 4.0 shit is so over-hyped, having more data is useful but you still need to be able to actual fix the issues that get flagged and most issues in a lot of technical industries are only there because they are too complex to be worth solving. The various process improvement tools any company big enough to benefit from 4.0 already uses would have already made 99% of the easy win improvements available.
Anytime companies talk about looking to increase productivity all I can think about is extreme workplace monitoring and time tasking every little thing employees do.
Sometimes I wish I had an office job where I could sit in a cozy cubicle in a comfy chair all day but then I remember shit like this.
Yea process timing is one of the most shitty things employers do for assembly line work. Itâs not even that useful as overworking people to tight time limits tends to lead to fuckups that take a lot longer to sort out down the line.
capitalists are SOOOO BAD at actually increasing productivity. Like âOpen Workplacesâ was a fad and they somehow managed to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars essentially just removing cubicles, under the idea itâll foster better communication and shit and fit more people in a space reducing rent for offices, but eventually studies came out saying it DECREASED productivity like 20%. And it took a fucking deathplague to finally let people work from home, when rresearch almost consinstantly shows that if instead of working 5 days in the office, they worked 4 days at home, taking one hole day off, they would STILL be more productive, and itâd decimate fucking how much the company has to pay renting out office space. But of course they pooh-pooh that whenever youâd try to work from home, and do the other stupid thing that actuallly reduced productivity.
You wanna know what I think is gonna be the next big kickoff industry thing that nobody saw coming but changes the world anyway in ways that nobody expected? Hyperspectral imaging. So instead of just having 3 channels of light information like our puny human eyes are evolved for (Red, Blue, Green) or (Hue, Saturation, Value) or ( ratios of red versus green, blue versus yellow, and black versus white), theyâll be hundreds if not thousands of channels. Ideally , youâd have a smooth image across a huge chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum, not just the visible stuff. So you could see exactly what specific wavelengths are being reflected,absorbed,etc. Whatâs so cool about this? You figure out what something is made of just by seeing its absorbtion spectrum. You can look at foodstuffs and figure out if thereâs defects and other qualities just by looking at a hyperspectral image of it. Hyperspectral imaging of aerial photographs can let you tell exactly what species tree cover is made up, what kind of soil it is, what kind of minerals are in the ground, etc. You can take a hyperspectral image of that gross little mole thing that just popped up on your shoulder a few months ago, and see if its just an innocent mole or malignant cancer. if a bunch of the hurdles constraining the technology today (high cost, difficulty making a lens that can form image across large bands of light, large file size, difficulty with photosensors and being able to capture an image across tons of spectra in a brief enough moment it doesnât blur) are leapt over, and it becomes something you can buy in a gadget for a couple hundred bucks, I very strongly feel there will be thousands of practical uses for it we canât even imagine right now.
