Frederick Winslow Taylor, eat your heart out.

Emily Popek
6 min readMar 8, 2018
A Taylor system machinist

The pioneer of scientific management would no doubt give at least a nod of professional admiration to the patent filed by Tye Michael Brady of Seattle, Washington, for a “wrist band haptic feedback system.”

This fantastical (and as yet still imaginary) system would employ “radio frequency based tracking of a worker’s hands to monitor performance of inventory tasks.” Furthermore, if the…

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Emily Popek

Emily F. Popek, a school communications professional and freelance journalist, lives in upstate New York with her family.