Transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Korina Lymnioudi juxtaposing archival-style narration of a General Electric exhibition (the 'House of Magic' or 'Wonder show of Science', noting nearly 700,000 visitors) with a speaker's contemporary concern that computers and automation will reduce people to statistics and make society 'all machines everywhere.'
And we're going to see if the history that we have been given actually lines up with what we see in these pictures. So here we go.
Let us look within this imposing structure.
Into the great hall where General Electric assembled its galaxy of exhibits, electric devices and marvels of electricity, each designed to.
Play its part in human betterment. Beneath the famous monogram, the entrance to.
The House of Magic, Wonder show of Science.
Nearly 700,000 people pass through these portals to sit spellbound while mysteries of modern.
Electrical research were clearly explained.
And if we are to remain leaders in quality of product in the future, then it's just up to us to be leaders in pure science research today.
First of all, computers are taking over now, computers and automation. I think people will be regarded more as statistics than as actual people. I don't think it's going to be so nice when it sort of all machines everywhere.
When that time comes, the whole world will have shrunk to a point, and the traditional role of the city as a meeting place for man would have ceased to make any sense. I only hope that when that day comes and when the city is abolished, the whole world isn't turned into one giant meta.