Tuesday 9 November 2010

Is man doomed by the machine age?

I'll get back to you on this one.
Robot music, radios, mechanical messenger boys, and putt-putt golf... of the FUTURE!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

and of course, missing the big irony that the article bemoaning the replacement of human workers by machines was printed by printing presses rather than hand-copied by scriveners

jayessell said...

All the comments to the article at the Modern Mechanix Blog and no mention of the actual cause of the The Depression.

Overvalued stocks being bought on credit?

Value of the stocks disconnected from the worth of the companies?

I'm not seeing a mention of oversupply unless that also means 'people cutting back on purchases'.