Doing It For Erma
https://tedium.co/2017/12/18/let-erma-do-it-internet-archive/ [tedium.co]
2017-12-22 05:01
An 1956 book about the early history of automation finally hits digital shelves, thanks to a friend of mine. And its appearance is deliciously ironic.
Perhaps that was a little annoying, but David O. Woodbury’s 1956 work Let Erma Do It, which is titled after one of the first automated check-sorting systems ever produced, was a worthy book at the front end of the era of automation that has brought us so many things since. It’s the rare early view on a trend that, retrospectively, changed everything.
Here’s a book about the value of automation, which had to be painstakingly added, page by page, to a PDF for internet consumption.