It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.
It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.
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