automation both diminished our quality of life and rendered us slaves to machines in
our inability to reverse progress. Admittedly, mechanical automation spawned entire
industries, creating jobs, stimulating economic growth, and supplying a plethora of
innovative conveniences. Nevertheless, the sociological and environmental price of
progress may have outweighed its benefits.
Digital automation has brought its own brand of alienation. Computer automation,
and especially the Internet, breeds information overload and steals our time and
attention away from family, community, and coworkers. In these respects, digital
automation tends to diminish our quality of life and create its own legion of human
slaves. On the other hand, by relegating repetitive tasks to computers, digital technology
has spawned great advances in medicine and physics, helping us to better understand the
world, to enhance our health, and to prolong our lives. Digital automation has also
emancipated architects, artists, designers, and musicians, by opening up creative
possibilities and by saving time. Perhaps most important, however, information
technology makes possible universal access to information, thereby providing a
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