Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26933567-20150406121906/@comment-3106883-20150503031653

The fear of man being replaced by machine dates back at least to the Luddites, the 19th Century machine wreckers. We use Luddite today to mean people opposed to technological advance in general, but they were skilled artisans rebelling specifically against being replaced by machines, and non-skilled workers to tend to those machines. So, fear of replacement by "The Machine" has been with us since the start of the Industrial or Machine Age.