Standardization in the Filing Equipment Industry
John L. Stephens · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 1928
FROM the East Indian, Gandhi, comes the warning that the smashing of machines and the return to a medieval spinning wheel mode of life is the only salvation open to mankind. A fanciful play, R. U. R., a few years ago was commented upon widely by many individuals who are interested in our economic and social progress. Dr. Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin recently wrote a series of three articles on our so-called machine civilization and these were published in a widely circulated business magazine. A German motion picture, Metropolis, has attracted considerable popular interest. Dr. Samuel Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology went so far as to entitle an article Robots, which appeared