Garet Garrett traces humanity’s long struggle to recapture Eden, a life free from the curse of labour, and asks what the machine has done to that dream. He examines the law of machines, the people who mind them or starve, the paradox of surplus, and the peril of trade as nation after nation builds factories and tariff walls.
A brief, prescient essay on automation and globalisation by an influential American journalist. Download the free EPUB.