We don't make book on this one and predict no winner....but we can tell you for this particular contest, there is standing room only — in the Twilight Zone.In the future of 1967, Wallace V. Whipple, owner of a vast Midwestern manufacturing corporation, decides to upgrade his plant to increase profits by installing a machine named the "X109B14 modified transistorized totally automatic assembly machine," which leads to tens of thousands of layoffs.
Some former employees try to convince him that the value of a man outweighs that of a machine, but their protests fall on deaf ears.
Whipple coldly responds that while his father only "doubled" his factory production, his competitors quadrupled theirs.
Whipple proceeds to replace secretaries with automated dictation machines, thinking that powder room breaks and maternity leave are inconveniences.
The point is that, too often, Man becomes clever instead of becoming wise; he becomes inventive and not thoughtful; and sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Whipple, he can create himself right out of existence.