Word: robot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electrician Wensley was prompted to forecast: "I can envision the day when possibly a race of 500,000 of these men will be at the beck & call of humanity. . . . We have already got an order from a gentleman who has a country estate. He wants a robot...
...robot has not yet come, but H. G. Wells sees it approaching along with the complete domination of the business men. So educators hasten to justify their product to the new monarchs by pointing out civilization's debt for the truths discovered by scientists, and the progressiveness of college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...
...after all aren't these attempts to bring American college machine to Robot-perfection too mechanistic and grubby? Unless treated as a professional school, college should attempt to do little more than awaken an interest in other people's grooves. In the mad rush for marks, details, for true-false examinations, authoritative quotations and the like, no one seems to lift his eyes above the Library spire. College should be sipped and enjoyed as a liqueur and not gulped down as rot-gut gin for pure animal excitation...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Brilliant satire of those Babbitts who would turn even a musical genius into a Robot...
...working an eight-hour day making a whole pin is replaced by a man working a ten-hour day making part of a pin and not knowing how the pin is made, that is not civilization, but terrible degradation. By adopting Socialism you can be a Robot two hours a day and have the rest of the time to yourself...