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76 Pol. Sci. Q. 3 (1961)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry76 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume LXXVI POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS I AN industrial society represents a vast team, not of humans alone, but of humans affiliated with machines. That the machines are intended to save labor, enrich living and facilitate the making of more machines need not engage us here. Rather let us consider that machines are stubborn and unyield- ing. They are not to be cajoled or coerced. Herein they differ, of course, from human beings, for human beings have always yielded, and presumably always will yield when enough pres- sure is brought to bear upon them. It follows that as mankind amalgamates itself more and more into a machine society it will be the human elements who will make the essential accommoda- tions and adjustments. The human units who, individually, are the temperamental and unpredictable partners to the union will do the bidding of their mechanical servants. What, for instance, is a modern manufacturing establishment but a miniature society in which the humans aliment and groom the machines? The nature and quality of the factory's product are fixed by the machines, with the human complement an ac- cessory whose idiosyncrasies and vagaries are but handicaps, unavoidable nuisances, that the institution would gladly be rid of if it could. Likewise, by legal concept, the factory-the corpora- tion-is a composite citizen, a being of steadfast purpose whose conduct is accountable in spite of the uncertain behavior of its operatives. And as nations, generally, develop technological competence and pull more abreast of one another in respect to their indus- trialization their problems of compatible and efficient articula- tion, their concern with the over-all welfare, will, like the factory's, 3 March 1961 Number 1

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