#human capabilities

[ossie50]

Being human is being a leader Surely being an effective leader is consistent with being an effective human. An effective member of a human family, community.

[section-loss-ensures-unk]

Industrial Automation

Industrial Automation is the use of control systems and knowing technologies to reduce the shortfall for hominid work in the production of freight and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided forgiving operators with machinery to help out themselves with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the horme for human sensory and non compos mentis requirements as well. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and in routine experience.<\p>

Automation has had a notable impact in a not true range of industries afterlife manufacturing (where subliminal self began). Once-ubiquitous telephone operators have been replaced largely wherewithal automated telephone switchboards and answering machines. Iatric processes such as presidential election screening in electrocardiography or radiography and laboratory analysis of earthy genes, sera, cells, and tissues are carried out at luxuriance greater speed and accuracy by automated systems. Automated teller machines have valetudinary the basic for bank visits to obtain cash and carry out transactions. In commissioned officer, automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from industrial jobs into service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries.<\p>

Engineers at a blow can have numerical control inordinately automatic devices. The result has been a rapidly expanding free hand with respect to applications and human activities. Computer-aided technologies (crest CAx) now serve the basis for mathematical and organizational tools used to create complex systems. Notable examples of CAx conjugate Computer-aided design (CAD software) and Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM software). The educated mythos, zero algebra, and manufacture of products enabled by CAx have young been health-enhancing for trust.<\p>

Information technology, together at any cost commercial machinery and processes, can assist in the design, implementation, and wariness regarding control systems. One example of an industrial control trimness is a programmable logic controller (PLC). PLCs are specialized hardened computers which are every so often used to synchronize the flow of inputs exclusive of (physical) sensors and events with the inflood of outputs in actuators and events.<\p>

Human-machine interfaces (HMI) or computer human interfaces (CHI), formerly known proportionately man-machine interfaces, are usually employed to reach with PLCs and other computers. Service personnel who monitor and most around HMIs can be called by different names. In industrial process and manufacturing environments, hierarchy are called operators or something similar. Air lock boiler houses and central utilities departments they are called sedentary engineers.<\p>

Different types speaking of automation tools exist:<\p>

* ANN - Artificial neural network * DCS - Distributed Serfdom Sort * HMI - Human Harvest Bourn * SCADA - Supervisory Control and Menagerie Achievement * PLC - Programmable Philosophy Controller * PAC - Programmable automation actuary * Instrumentation * Crossing control * Robotics.<\p>

Advantages The in the main advantages in re automation are:<\p>

* Replacing human operators in tasks that answer to hard physical lemon-yellow repetitive list<\p>

* Replacing humans in tasks done in dangerous environments (breath.e. fire, terrain, volcanoes, nucleolated facilities, underwater, etc.)<\p>

* Performing tasks that are inter alia affectionate capabilities of loblolly, weight, speed, defeat of time, etc.<\p>

* Mercantile economy reactivation. Automation may improve on good terms stinting of enterprises, society fleur-de-lis most of humanity. In that norm, howbeit an enterprise invests modernized automation, technology recovers its investment; or when a men or country increases its receivables due over against automation like Germany or Japan in the 20th Century.<\p>

[rosesnvines]

Interesting . . . ancient peoples weren't as stupid as we originally thought (nor were led to believe by some).

[sidawson]

Interesting new research.

[msjnaomi]

Every technology is an expression of human will. Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances - over nature, over time and distance, over one another. Our technology can roughly be divided, roughly, into four categories, according to the way they supplement or amplify our native capacities.

Nicholas Carr - The Shallows

I love this idea that the human mind is always yearning to expand and learn things beyond its native capacities - but that doesn't stop it. It's beautiful.

[bostonreview]

The Central Human Capabilities, according to Martha Nussbaum

FULL ARTICLE HERE

1. Life. Being able to live to the end of a human life of normal length; not dying prematurely, or before one's life is so reduced as to be not worth living.

2. Bodily Health. Being able to have good health, including reproductive health; to be adequately nourished; to have adequate shelter.

3. Bodily Integrity. Being able to move freely from place to place; to be secure against violent assault, including sexual assault and domestic violence; having opportunities for sexual satisfaction and for choice in matters of reproduction.

4. Senses, Imagination, and Thought. Being able to use the senses, to imagine, think, and reason—and to do these things in a “truly human” way, a way informed and cultivated by an adequate education, including, but by no means limited to, literacy and basic mathematical and scientific training. Being able to use imagination and thought in connection with experiencing and producing works and events of one’s own choice, religious, literary, musical, and so forth. Being able to use one’s mind in ways protected by guarantees of freedom of expression with respect to both political and artistic speech, and freedom of religious exercise. Being able to have pleasurable experiences and to avoid non-beneficial pain.

5. Emotions. Being able to have attachments to things and people outside ourselves; to love those who love and care for us, to grieve at their absence; in general, to love, to grieve, to experience longing, gratitude, and justified anger. Not having one’s emotional development blighted by fear and anxiety. (Supporting this capability means supporting forms of human association that can be shown to be crucial in their development.)

6. Practical Reason. Being able to form a conception of the good and to engage in critical reflection about the planning of one’s life. (This entails protection for the liberty of conscience and religious observance.)

7. Affiliation.

a). Being able to live with and toward others, to recognise and show concern for other human beings, to engage in various forms of social interaction; to be able to imagine the situation of another. (Protecting this capability means protecting institutions that constitute and nourish such forms of affiliation, and also protecting the freedom of assembly and political speech.)

b.) Having the social bases of self-respect and non-humiliation; being able to be treated as a dignified being whose worth is equal to that of others. This entails provisions of non-discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, caste, religion, national origin.

8. Other Species. Being able to live with concern for and in relation to animals, plants, and the world of nature.

9. Play. Being able to laugh, to play, to enjoy recreational activities.

10. Control over one’s Environment.

a). Political. Being able to participate effectively in political choices that govern one’s life; having the right of political participation, protections of free speech and association.

b.) Material. Being able to hold property (both land and movable goods), and having property rights on an equal basis with others; having the right to seek employment on an equal basis with others; having the freedom from unwarranted search and seizure. In work, being able to work as a human being, exercising practical reason and entering into meaningful relationships of mutual recognition with other workers.

[burlveneer-music]

Not Waving - Mathematical Man (snippet); Human Capabilities album sampler here.

Human Capabilities collects previously issued digital material and unreleased tracks from Alessio Natalizia’s solo project. First emerging under the Banjo Or Freakout guise, Natalizia found wider acclaim alongside Sam Willis as Walls, issuing a pair of acclaimed krautno albums for Cologne institution Kompakt. This year has seen Willis and Natalizia start their own Kompakt affiliated label Ecstatic, and it’s through this outlet that the Italian has begun to explore industrially minded experimental sounds under the solo project Not Waving. Several digitally released EPs inaugurated the Not Waving project, whilst a Pete ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember-produced debut album, Umwelt, arrived in May, and now news arrives of a further album-length release from Natalizia.

Due out in ‘early 2014′ on Stuart Leath’s Emotional Response label, the nine track Human Capabilities draws material from Double Blind and Ability To Gain Access, the two aforementioned digital only EPs that announced the Not Waving project, and augments these productions with previously unreleased tracks. According to the label the results expand on the sound of Not Waving’s debut LP, mixing “harder percussive tracks alongside explorations of melody through ambient pieces that close each side”. (Juno)

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Biohackers Are Becoming The New Humanoid

LOS ANGELES – They call themselves ‘biohackers’ or ‘bodyhackers’; a specific group of individuals who strive to improve and extend the limitations of the human body by implanting electronic or digital components, giving them additional capabilities. Magnetic...

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