The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.