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===On being a machine=== | ===On being a machine=== | ||
We are in a machine age | {{Quote|{{ACC on technology}) }}We are in a machine age. | ||
Machines are good. We don’t want to run down machines. But we have indoctrinated ourselves that machine qualities — strength, speed, consistency, [[fungibility]] and ''mundanity'' — are the highest goods. We are taught these. We aspire to them. | It is a machine age because machines have proven consistently good at doing things we cannot, because we are too weak, too slow, too inconstant or too easily bored. | ||
Machines are good at being machines. We don’t want to run down machines. But we have indoctrinated ourselves that machine qualities — strength, speed, consistency, [[fungibility]] and ''mundanity'' — are the highest goods. We are taught these. We aspire to them. | |||
But executing a task with strength, speed, consistency, fungibility and patience are the highest human good ''only if you haven’t got a suitable machine''. If you have got a machine, use it. Let your people do something more useful. | But executing a task with strength, speed, consistency, fungibility and patience are the highest human good ''only if you haven’t got a suitable machine''. If you have got a machine, use it. Let your people do something more useful. |