Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality.
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly handing over power to machines.
Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.