Efficiency is never at war with value. The question, rather, is whether we might still recover a sense for the artistic human gesture, for the inner significance of every personal meeting, for the communal sharing out of which a society's future can be fashioned. We will no longer lash out against our machines. Nor will we fail to recognize the anti-human consequences of a progress conceived in purely technical terms. Machines will then find their rightful place in our lives precisely because we are paying attention first of all to each other.
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