The new machines have a great capacity for upsetting the present basis of industry, and of reducing the economic value of the routine factory employee to a point at which he is not worth hiring at any price. If we combine our machine potentials of a factory with the valuation of human beings on which our present factory system is based, we are in for an industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty…

– MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener at the request of the New York Times. The article was written in 1949 as The Machine Age, but not until May 20, 2013 were sections published in the New York Times: