Ultima Laputa: Where Men Are Faceless Tentacles of Computers
The new Utopians [as described in a 1965 book of that title by Robert Boguslaw] are concerned with non-people and with people substitutes. Their planning is done with computer hardware, system procedures, functional analysis, and heuristics.. . . The theoretical and practical solutions they seek call increasingly for decreases in the number and in the scope of responsibility of human beings within the operating structures of their new machine systems.