ManMachine Systems: People and Technology in OR

Iain Michael Fraser Munro

ManMachine Systems: People and Technology in OR

Iain Michael Fraser Munro

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Abstract

This paper provides an exploration of how different understandings of "man-machine systems" have accompanied developments in Operational Research. In particular, the paper will challenge the notion that we are in a position of mastery with respect to technology. Both Hard OR and Soft OR are criticized for a failure to examine adequately the relationship between people and technology. Toward the end of the paper a new way of understanding this relationship will he proposed in terms of technologies of the self or what Michel Foucault called "ethics."

Original language	English
Volume	12
Publication status	Published - Oct 1999

Keywords

man-machine systems
technology
rationality
emotion
free-will
technologies of the self
OPERATIONAL-RESEARCH
THINKING
ETHICS

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