This calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a
halt is not called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic
machines for most every line of industrial activity. You are now
getting to the stage where the most simple and elementary
mathematical problems are solved by merely pressing a few buttons
or turning a crank, the operator understanding little or nothing
of the fundamentals underlying the solution of the problems in
hand. This means, in the near future, brain atrophy through
disuse.
And so with other lines of industrial activity. Not one among a
thousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a
heel or perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units
in the completion of a pair of shoes. And perhaps it would be
impossible to find one individual whose intuitional faculties
were developed to the extent that he could turn out the perfect,
completed article.
In order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in
harnessing a mighty universal force to the end of utilizing the
same in turning our factory wheels, lighting our domiciles and
giving warmth to our homes in winter, it might not be amiss to
state a few facts concerning our knowledge of matter and energy.
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