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IBM Pollyanna Principle en · PROPN

Etymology

From Pollyanna principle, and in reference to the technology company IBM.

Meanings

1. The axiom that "machines should work; people should think".
   • e.g. most of the world's major problems result from machines that fail to work, and people who fail to think.
   • e.g. machines should do all the hard work, freeing people to think (hence the reference to Pollyanna)

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