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to use them at all, serve these objects, these extensions of
ourselves, as gods or minor religions. An Indian is the
servomechanism of his canoe, as the cowboy of his horse or
the executive of his clock.
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or
his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in
turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man
becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as
the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to
evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s
love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing
him with wealth. One of the merits of motivation research has
been the revelation of man’s sex relation to the motorcar.
Socially, it is the accumulation of group pressures and