. The
use of machines has brought us more leisure and more energy. But the author says
that this has been a curse rather than a blessing. Why?
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Answer:
Science has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them like children. Forexample, we do not know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be man’sservants; yet he has grown so dependent on them that they are in a far way to become hismasters. Already most men spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines.And the machines are very stern masters. They must be fed with coal, and given petrol to drink,and oil to wash with, and thy must be kept at the right temperature. And if they do not get theirmeals when they expect them, they row sulky and refuse to work, or burst with rage, and blowup, and spread ruin and destruction all around them. So we have to wait upon them veryattentively and do all that we can to keep them in good temper. Already we find it difficult eitherto work or play without the machines, and a time may come when they will rule us outaltogether, just as we rule the animals.