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When human atoms are knit into an organisation in which they are used, not in their full right as responsible human beings, but as cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that the raw material is flesh and blood. What is used as an element in a machine is in fact an element in a machine . . . The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door.1
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Cooley, M. (1989). Human-centred Systems. In: Rosenbrock, H. (eds) Designing Human-centred Technology. The Springer Series on Artificial Intelligence and Society. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1717-9_10
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