Quotes About Mechanization

The English not only possess better machines for moving nature, but are themselves better machines.

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

In a world where everything could be done by machinery, everything would be done by machinery.

the tendency towards mechanization which had become quasi-instinctive throughout almost the whole world

If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

The hardhearted person never sees people as a people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel. In the vast wheel of industry, he sees men as hands. In the massive wheel of big city life, he sees men as digits in a multitude. In the deadly wheel of army life, he sees men as numbers in a regiment. He depersonalizes life.

Part of the culture of modernity took shape around various affirmations that there could be individual gratification from emulating the impervious rhythms, efficiency, and dynamism of mechanization.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying-chariot through the fields of air.

Still, in summing up the situation, we must not forget that the New Left expresses certain truths and truisms and provides us with not a few straws in the wind. However immature, destructive, sterile, and confused, it is a cry of anguish and protest against a mechanized, profoundly leftish age. It is, in a sense, leftism to end all leftism.

Dried-up carcasses of animals and humans alike—for to mechs they were alike

I'm a total Luddite when it comes to gadgets and technology.

La sociedad de lo sucedáneo os seguirá utilizando como máquinas, alimentando como máquinas, controlando como máquinas, haciendo currar como máquinas, y se deshará de vosotros, como máquinas, cuando ya no podáis manteneros en estado de funcionamiento».

Corporations turned the human into a robot a long time ago.

STOCKING FRAME (1589)

In the mid-19th century it took twenty-five men a full day to harvest and thresh a ton of grain; today one person operating a combine harvester can do it in six minutes.

In the mid-19th century it took twenty-five men a full day to harvest and thresh a ton of grain; today one person operating a combine harvester can do it in six minutes.17

La mécanisation de l'homme avait fait de l'Europe un désert.

War in the era of machines could not possibly breed virtues like chivalry, courage, honor or manliness ... It imposed upon men nothing but the experience of bare destruction together with the humiliation of being only small cogs in the majestic wheel of slaughter.

The revival of magical beliefs is possible today because it no longer represents a social threat. The mechanization of the body is so constitutive of the individual that, at least in industrialized countries, giving space to the belief in occult forces does not jeopardize the regularity of social behavior. Astrology too can be allowed to return, with the certainty that even the most devoted consumer of astral charts will automatically consult the watch before going to work.

When men assimilate themselves to machines and value only the consequences of their work, not the work itself, style disappears, to be replaced by something which to the mechanised man appears more natural, though in fact is only more brutal.

Cyborg doesn't need to eat or sleep, and whenever he encounters an issue that he's not initially equipped to handle, his technology can transmogrify and immediately adapt to that situation.