Aim Quote by Wendell Berry

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

— Vitalik Buterin

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Richie Norton

“The fascination with automation in part reflected the country’s mood in the immediate postwar period, including a solid ideological commitment to technological progress. Representatives…

— Stephen M. Ward

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

— Jeremy Rifkin

For a long time, the humans are going to be better than the machines and so different parts of the job will be leveraged.…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

— Peter Senge

When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we…

— Branko Milanovic

“Some people, today we would call them entrepreneurs, responded to these economic opportunities by seeking and eventually finding ways of producing these goods in…

— Edward A. Hudson

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

— Karl Marx

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation…

— Erik Brynjolfsson