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}}The [[Jacquard loom]] was a power loom that simplified the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as ''brocade'', ''damask'' and ''matelassé'' with the use of punched cards. It was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804, and technology guru {{author|James Burke}} — a super cool seventies guy and former of great impressions on the young [[JC]] — hailed it as an early example of a computer in his magnificent, formative-impression inducing TV series, ''[[Connections]]''. | }}The [[Jacquard loom]] was a power loom that simplified the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as ''brocade'', ''damask'' and ''matelassé'' with the use of punched cards. It was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804, and technology guru {{author|James Burke}} — a super cool seventies guy and former of great impressions on the young [[JC]] — hailed it as an early example of a computer in his magnificent, formative-impression inducing TV series, ''[[Connections]]''. | ||
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===Sabotage!=== | ===Sabotage!=== | ||
The Jacquard loom | The Jacquard loom put many textile workers out of a job. It is said — implausibly, it seems — that these weavers who, with the fashion at the time, wore wooden French [[clogs]] called “''sabots''”, not best pleased with being pitched into [[redundancy]] — threw their clogs into the delicate machinery, wreaking havoc. This practice became so popular they gave it a name: “sabotage”. | ||
Friendly buzz-killers have since written to advise that the word did not reach the common idiom until the start of the 20th century, so clog-throwing weavers “is not supported by the etymology”. Rather, sabotage was originally a kind of [[work-to-rule]]: to work so slowly and clumsily as to resemble a peasant, peasants being in the habit of wearing wooden clogs — hence sabotage which, we suppose, means “cloggishness”. | |||
In the mean time the poor, truculent, bare-footed hand-weavers has no time to throw their clogs in the loom or 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 looms. 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=== | ===The new 2020 model Jacquard=== | ||