The machine now not only acts for him, but too often thinks for him.
James Beck: “The machine now not only acts for him, but too often thinks for him.”
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Beck warns that machines are increasingly taking over not just physical tasks but also cognitive functions.
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That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.





