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''Woven fabric plummeted in price''. Of ''course'' it did. Because ''anyone'' could produce it now. All you needed was a [[Jacquard loom]]. And all of a sudden ''every bugger was buying [[Jacquard loom]]s.'' | ''Woven fabric plummeted in price''. Of ''course'' it did. Because ''anyone'' could produce it now. All you needed was a [[Jacquard loom]]. And all of a sudden ''every bugger was buying [[Jacquard loom]]s.'' | ||
Who could have predicted ''that''?<ref>Well; Adam Smith, for one.</ref> Loom owners no longer needed hand-weavers. But the poor hand-weavers had no time to enjoy their new-found leisure, much less to pen think-pieces about [[technological unemployment]] or [[universal basic income]], for they were urgently needed to programme, maintain and enhance these fancy new automatic [[Jacquard loom]]s. | |||
They re-specialised. Now their skill was ''programming the Jacquard loom'' and ''designing faster, fancier, more flexible Jacquard looms''.<ref>Now, no doubt, some of them couldn’t figure out how to switch it on, failed to become programmers, and had a lousy time. This happens.</ref> | |||
===The new 2020 model Jacquard=== | |||
What, 200 odd years later, do you think you are currently staring at? ''A faster, fancier, more flexible Jacquard loom''. | |||
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*{{aiprov|Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated}} | *{{aiprov|Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated}} | ||
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