X109B14 modified transistorized totally automated machine

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I'm watching The Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple's on Me-TV. It was originally shown in 1967 but is still relevant 47 years later. Comments?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgLVU-eKRE
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
What is relevant?
wikipedia.org said:
... to increase output by installing a machine ... which leads to layoffs.
Sounds relevant to me. But that's progress. :wink:
 
dlgoff said:
I'm watching The Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple's on Me-TV. It was originally shown in 1967 but is still relevant 47 years later. Comments?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgLVU-eKRE

Can't really watch this at the moment (at work), but if the theme is the obsolescence of man or even danger to man caused by automation, there are many earlier works that explore this very well. Two early examples that spring to mind: Karel Capek's 1920 play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) that coined the term robot, and Fritz Lang's 1927 German silent film masterpiece "Metropolis".