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Originally Posted by Qurban Ali Qureshi View Post
One great defect of our civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science, as we have seen, has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them like small children.
For example, we do not know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be man's servants; yet he has grown so dependent on them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Already most men spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. And the machines are very stern masters. They must be fed with coal, and given petrol to drink, and oil to wash with, and must be kept at the right temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect them, they grow sulky and refuse to work, or burst with rage, and blow up, and spread ruin and destruction all round them. So we have to wait upon them very attentively and do all that we can to keep them in a good temper. Already we find it difficult either to work or play without the machines, and a time may come when they rule us altogether, just as we rule the animals.

PRECIS: Dependency on Machine.

We don’t know what to do without knowledge. Science has given us powers yet we don’t know how to use these powers. Machines require proper management or maintenance and to get fed up. If don’t do they refuse to work and cause destruction. We became so dependent on machine that we don’t feel comfortable do anything without them. In the course of time they may become our master and rule us.
My attempt, without the use of first person.

The contemporary civilization does not know how to get benefit from knowledge and science. Machines are meant to serve humans. However, the opposite is becoming a reality. Machines need good maintenance otherwise, they do not work. Due to increased dependence of man on machines, machines might rule the humans in future.
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