If you tried to turn figures into human form and give a computer flesh and blood you would probably end up with something like Mr. Jay. He is the personification of joylessness, the missing link between man and the machine.
Of Douglas Jay, Socialist Party economist, statistician, and Member of Parliament:
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.
We are more like vehicles, a part of our mensch machine, our man-machine. Sometimes we play the music, sometimes the music plays us, sometimes... it plays.
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.