"The
basic moral problem that faces man as he moves into the age of automation,
the age of accelerating conquest of nature, is whether he is really fit
to live in an industrial society; whether his institutions will adjust rapidly
enough; whether he will rivet himself with an absurd institution like full
employment in the economic order when it is not only unnecessary but unadministratable
in anything but a slave society; whether freed from the necessity to devote
his brain and brawn to the production of goods and services, he can address
himself to the work of civilization itself."
(Louis O. Kelso, 1964) |
