DeSkilling

Reorganizing a job or inventing technology to simplify it so that it requires less skill. Ideally to commoditize the cost of labour.

See :

• DavidNoble/ForcesOfProduction
• AutomatingMechanicalJobs
• ProductivityOfKnowledgeWork / SavedMacro
• AugmentationVsAutomation
• (WarpLink) SocialSkills. Does a market which wants to turn us into consumers also try to deskill us socially?