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‘A dominant minority will create a uniform, all-enveloping, super-planetary structure, designed for automatic operation. Instead of functioning actively as an autonomous personality, man will become a passive, purposeless machine-conditioned animal whose proper function, as technicians now interpret man’s role, will either be fed into the machine or strictly limited and controlled for the benefit of a depersonalised, collective organisation’.

Sound familiar? He wrote this before he died in 1990, before all this new smart technology.