The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140095 Message #3218764
Posted By: Joe_F
05-Sep-11 - 08:21 PM
Thread Name: Happy Labor Day
Subject: RE: Happy Labor Day
...the first industrial revolution, the revolution of the "dark satanic mills," was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery.... The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain, at least in its simpler and more routine decisions.... [T]aking the second revolution as accomplished, the average human being of mediocre attainments has nothing to sell that it is worth anyone's money to buy.
The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying or selling....
-- Norbert Wiener, _Cybernetics_ (1947)