Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.
In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men.
In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.
See Eigen {633625} for a more explicit personal statement of the choice for the individual.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.
The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.
Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.