John McAfee is running for US president as a member of the Libertarian Party. This is an op-ed he wrote and gave us permission to run.
My first job out of graduate school was with General Electric’s Process Automation Division in Salem, Virginia. It was there that I learned process control programming. My first assignment was automating Australia Iron and Steel’s rolling plant in Port Kembla, New South Wales. GE was the only company in the world at the time that manufactured process automation computers.
A steel mill rolling plant takes white hot steel plates, and through a succession of pressure rolls, compresses the steel into the thin sheets that are used in automobile body construction and similar purposes.
Rolling plants had previously been controlled by talented human labor, but when human mistakes were made, entire sets of pressure rollers could be destroyed by assigning inappropriate pressures, and a steel mill could be shut down for days or weeks while the processing line was repaired. Automation was the answer to human error. For the full article click here
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