Burden Quote by Louis O. Kelso

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A…

— Jacques Ellul

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands.…

— William O. Douglas

In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would…

— Lewis Mumford

“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?”

— Peter Watts

“The technologically-aided destruction of old, mechanical professions drives us to higher-functioning tasks that tap more fully into what makes us human.”

— Winston Damarillo

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of…

— Adam Smith

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of…

— B. F. Skinner

In most industries, technological change is happening at a rapid rate.

— Ken Moelis

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations…

— Lewis Mumford

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

— Aldous Huxley

“There has not been a piece of technology designed to save labor that has not increased labor,”

— Wayne Gladstone