When that strategy was exhausted, they turned to automating operations or moving them to places with cheaper labour, either elsewhere in America or abroad.
At Udacity and Coursera self-improvers pay for cheap, short programmes that bestow " micro credentials" and " nanodegrees" in, say, self-driving cars or the Android operating system.
However, the idea of an " automatic computer" – one that could guide itself through a series of operations automatically, was a huge deal, and would foreshadow computer programs.
Harry suddenly realized that the tape measure, which was measuring between his nostrils, was doing this on its own. Mr. Ollivander was flitting around the shelves, taking down boxes .
Disassociation is when thoughts or emotions enter your mind and you find yourself incapable of focusing on your actions, instead operating on autopilot or watching yourself do things without feeling connected to your body.
The American farm is today like a huge factory; the use of the hands has almost entirely disappeared; there are only a few operations of husbandry that are not performed automatically.