¶ Technology
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We hear a great deal about technology as something very threatening-- something new. I’m going to try to define automation. By automation I would mean any regulatory pattern or control operative independent of man’s controlling it: that would be automated. I’ll point out to you that the orbiting about the Earth and all the pulsing of the Sun … this is all automated. I point out that none of you know what you’re doing with your lunch right now. … this is all automated. You’re not consciously saying, 'I’m going to send this off to make hair for tomorrow, and I’m going to have curly hair, or whatever it is. You don’t have the slightest idea why you were born at seven pounds and why you went to 170 and why you stopped. Wherever it is, it’s all automated. People learned accidentally that they pushed some buttons and made some babies, but all the rest is automated. They haven’t the slightest idea why. I point out to you that we have never had anything but automation.
