Changing the world Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Don't you see, Doctor?" said Lasher. "The machines are to practically everbody what the white men were to the Indians. People are finding that,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for…

— W. H. Auden

“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and…

— George Orwell

“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant…

— Robert Hughes

“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The industrial model is gone. People are more than machines.”

— Richie Norton

People are not machines. And we have to respect that.

— Jack Conte

“key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.”

— Donald A. Norman

“To make sense of what people do, one must share their society or form of life. Therefore machines ought to be the strangest of…

— Harry M. Collins

“We will become an endangered species in the next century. Machines will take over. Ideas won’t matter. Performance alone will count.”

— R.M. DAmato

Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.

— Sebastian Thrun