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"Ex-secretary of agriculture Earl Butz...believes that we should adapt to the machines, that humans should be forced to conform to technological conditions or standards. I believe that the machines should be adapted to us – to serve our human needs as our history, our heritage, and our most generous hopes have defined them."

From "Horse-Drawn Tools and the Doctrine of Labor Saving"