“The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.” MenFactsEvilConsequenceMachinesMachinery Author:Oscar Wilde
“This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.” PeopleMenFirstsDifferentThreeLostNumbersParticularCircumstancesCapableConsequenceMachinesIncreaseSpeciesInventionPassingPassingsSavingPerformingLabourDivisionOne ManQuantityFacilitateOwingWorkmenDexterity Book:The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master
“[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.” WantKindProblemBlackMankindConsequenceMachinesMirrorsUnforeseen Author:Charlie Brooker
“Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.” ShouldMovingScienceGamesLostResultsNumbersPlayerConsequenceMachinesOrganizationChessExperimentsNervousAccumulationRegisterPlaying GamesChess Players Author:William Stanley Jevons