"The man who wishes to dominate his fellows creates the android machine. He abdicates in favor of it and delegates his humanity to it. He tries to construct the thinking machine and dreams of being able to construct the willing machine, the living machine, so that he can remain behind it without anxiety, freed from all danger, exempt from every feeling of weakness, and enjoying a vicarious triumph through what he has invented.”
—Gilbert Simondon, On The Mode of Existence of Technical Objects










