“In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.”

—  Robert L. Heilbroner

Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter III, part 10, The Mastery of Technology, p. 161

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