Machines and man............................

     I believe that what the machine does is the opposite of dehumanizing.  It allows us to get rid of the routine.  It forces us to concentrate on the kinds of things that the machine cannot do, and there will always be a great number more of these.  Recall that I mentioned in mathematics as it is understood today, one can construct questions that cannot be answered within the system in which the question was formulated.  No matter how the machine is constructed, there will always be situations that the machine cannot foresee.  The human element, the element of invention, the element of true ingenuity and flexibility, is not apt ever to be taken over by machines.
     Some of the developments I have considered in this chapter will not happen in my lifetime.  They may not even occur in the lifespans of my youngest readers.  But the man-machine combination is likely to transform human thinking and transform it into something much more intricate, very much more interesting and incomparably deeper than mankind has as yet encountered.

-Edward Teller,  The Pursuit of Simplicity

Teller (1909-2003) had this book published in 1980.  I am wondering what he would write today.