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 ===On being a machine===
-We are in a machine age. It is a machine age because machines have proven consistently good at doing things we could not, because we were too weak, too slow, too inconstant or too easily bored.
+{{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.