Cause modern world will build things high

I think I will have to disagree with Eli.
The thought of flying anuses terrifies me.

That being said, I think that Sadie Plant makes a really interesting point regarding the nature of automated/technological work. She makes the point throughout the text, but I found the analysis on page 118 especially salient. There seems to be two parts to the argument that she is making.

The first is that there is some portion of information technology that is imminently feminine. I think that there might be slight problems with that view in so far as the kind of historical examples that she chooses to utilize run the risk of an auto-essentialization. Sure, it might be important to talk about the differences between male and female that are entrenched in discourses or the possibility of very real material sexuations. However, it is still dangerous to take that argument to far.

The second portion of her argument is a lot more interesting in my opinion. Technology changes the nature of work itself. There is a fundamental difference between typing out notes with a typewriter and handwriting(whether or not that is actually sexed in the way that Plant argues is another matter). But, I think what is the most important is that we can expand that line of thought to understand how technology expands the horizons of roles and opportunities, even if these changes aren't immediately borne out in reality. Mundane tasks become sort of transfigured in so far as information technology and automation technology redefine who can do a job, how many people are necessary to do a job, and the speed at which a job can be done at. I think that will have implications for our later readings as well.