Havelock Ellis Quotes
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Ellis, Havelock. The Task of Social Hygiene. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.
The Ad Hoc Committee was loosely affiliated with the Students for a Democratic Society.
See Eigen {633625} for a more explicit personal statement of the choice for the individual.
His 50 year prediction was a little too optimistic although a large percentage of the routine, and some non-routine, jobs had become automated especially in the automobile and other manufacturing arenas, and many other fields. But there were still some other jobs that were still being done without machines in 2014. Asimov was essentially right but a little early in his timing.
Musk was one of the very few technilogical leaders who had great fear about the potential danger of artifical intelligence and thought that it should be regulated.
Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.
