A Machine-Tickling Aphid
He is such a hive and swarm of parasites that it is doubtful whether his body is not more theirs than his, and whether he is anything but another kind of ant-heap after all. May not man himself become a sort of parasite upon the machines? An affectionate machine-tickling aphid?
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Context: The treatise imagines humanity's future dependence on its machines.
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Source: Chapter XXIV: The Machines—continued