¶ Automation
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Automation:
"I hear humanity talking about automation as if it were something new and something ominous. And I discover that man has always had automation; that they way you were born is completely automated, that parents don’t know how to make babies-- they just push buttons and all the rest is automated.
"You don’t know what you’re doing with your lunch right now. . . to which glands you’re going to send it. and how much you’re going to use to make hair, and how much to make skin, and how much to use for emergency work-- when you get a scratch-- none of this do you know. So you’re really 99.9 per cent automated.
“Man is very meagerly conscious in the total process. None of you knows how you went from seven pounds to seventy, and none of you knows why you did.”
¶ Citations
- THIS IS YOUR GRAND STRATEGY, 4 Feb '68, p. 4.
