Men and machines
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Author
Contributions
- W. T. Murch - Illustrator
Publication
1937 - Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
88,500 words, Guess
Page Count
354 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemenmachines00chas
- OCLC Control Number11891545
- Open LibraryOL24236703M
Classifications
- DDC338.4
Description
From Chapter 1... Certain philosophers hold that machinery is enslaving us. I am not a machine tender, but first and last I encounter a good many mechanisms in a day's march, particularly when that day is spent in a city so large and so complicated that it could never have been built by human muscle. Before analyzing the extent of serfdom in others, it might be well to determine how far I am myself a slave. The first thing that I hear in the morning is a machine —a patented alarm clock. It calls and I obey. But if I do not feel like obeying, I touch its back, and it relapses humbly into silence. Thus we bully each other, with the clock normally leading by a wide margin. (Once, however, I threw a clock out of the window, and it never bullied anyone again.)
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