Riding the Machine

Illustration by F. G. Cooper, from William F. Ogburn, You and Machines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934).

"It is Youth to whom we must look--not old men. They must learn to adjust themselves to the Machine. Perhaps they can see in advance what some of its effects will be. Our ancestors had the problem of adjusting themselves to snow and ice, to the sabre-toothed tiger and the woolly rhinoceros. The problem of the modern age is to adjust itself to a new monster, the Machine. Its habitat is not the forest, but the modern city. The future is in the hands of Youth." p. 52.