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01a32f9
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Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.
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rebellion
history
human
machine
manufacturing
workers
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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c5fca86
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"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything." --
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future
machine
science-fiction
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E.M. Forster |
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3771d09
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"Not saving you from this storm, mutant," he said. "Saving you for your later fate, we are." His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. "Oh, good. Yoda captured us," Fang whispered."
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mutant
robot
machine
yoda
star-wars
lol
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James Patterson |
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7696824
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Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.
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travel
future
unrest
machine
civilisation
civilization
science-fiction
soul
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E.M. Forster |
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8cb878e
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To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
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slap-stick
machine
system
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Marshall McLuhan |
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53e6280
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Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.
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machine
science-fiction
isolation
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E.M. Forster |
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bdf5fbd
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"Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains from heroes and so forth...There's still plenty for you to do. And you'll do it. And when you fall in love and have a mistress or a wife and children to look after, it will all seem easier." He opened the door but stopped on the threshold. "Surround yourself with human beings, my dear. They are easier to fight for than principles." He laughed. "But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose such a wonderful machine." With a wave of his hand he shut the door."
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principals
james-bond
machine
evil
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Ian Fleming |
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dcb768d
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Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world.
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machine
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E. L. Konigsburg |