Rod Serling, a really good writer and 100% human, wrote an episode of "The Twilight Zone" that aired in 1964, entitled: "The Brain Center at Whipple's."It opened with this narration by the author:"These are the players — with or without a scorecard. In one corner a machine; in the other, one Wallace V. Whipple, man. And the game? It happens to be the historical battle between flesh and steel, between the brain of man and the product of man's brain. We don't make book on this one and predict no winner. But we can tell you for this particular contest, there is standing room only — in the Twilight Zone."Mr. Whipple is the cold-hearted, profit-obsessed factory owner with a mania for replacing human employees with machines. [Spoiler alert] After he's replaced every human in the factory, the episode ends with him seated at the bar in a nearby tavern bemoaning the unfairness of machines replacing people -- because he himself has been replaced by a robot. The episode ends with this narrated epilogue:"There are many bromides applicable here: too much of a good thing, tiger by the tail, as you sow, so shall ye reap. The point is that too often man becomes clever instead of becoming wise. He becomes inventive, but not thoughtful. And sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Whipple, he can create himself right out of existence. Tonight's tale of oddness and obsolescence from - The Twilight Zone."Sci-fi writers are coal mine canaries -- and we never heed their warnings, do we?

Rod Serling, a really good writer and 100% human, wrote an episode of "The Twilight Zone" that aired in 1964, entitled: "The Brain Center at Whipple's."It opened with this narration by the author:"These are the players — with or without a scorecard. In one corner a machine; in the other, one Wallace V. Whipple, man. And the game? It happens to be the historical battle between flesh and steel, between the brain of man and the product of man's brain. We don't make book on this one and predict no winner. But we can tell you for this particular contest, there is standing room only — in the Twilight Zone."Mr. Whipple is the cold-hearted, profit-obsessed factory owner with a mania for replacing human employees with machines. [Spoiler alert] After he's replaced every human in the factory, the episode ends with him seated at the bar in a nearby tavern bemoaning the unfairness of machines replacing people -- because he himself has been replaced by a robot. The episode ends with this narrated epilogue:"There are many bromides applicable here: too much of a good thing, tiger by the tail, as you sow, so shall ye reap. The point is that too often man becomes clever instead of becoming wise. He becomes inventive, but not thoughtful. And sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Whipple, he can create himself right out of existence. Tonight's tale of oddness and obsolescence from - The Twilight Zone."Sci-fi writers are coal mine canaries -- and we never heed their warnings, do we?

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