Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
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.
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.
Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.