> Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

• pro-◊ automation
• also cited in
• cited everywhere:
  1. 📖 The Power of Full Engagement as a means of conserving mental energy, context of willpower depletion and all that
  2. ❐ The Glass Cage, but probably critically?
  3. 1988 📖 The Design of Everyday Things, where I likely heard it first