Lewis Mumford on AI
2 quotes from Lewis Mumford on the wall, 1934, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Harcourt, Brace and Company.
The automaton is the last step
American historian and critic Lewis Mumford in the opening chapter of Technics and Civilization, his 1934 history of the machine in Western culture, in the section "Machines, Utilities, and 'The Machine'".
The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine
American historian Lewis Mumford in Technics and Civilization (1934), in the section 'The Monastery and the Clock', arguing that mechanical timekeeping, not steam power, founded the machine age.