With the advent of the machine age, and the influx of workers into cities to work in factories, people gradually lost control over their own destinies.

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Unlike the lush, elaborate, French-inspired, high Deco romanticism of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State's massing and design is a more simplified, commercial evocation of the Machine Age, a favorite theme of the time.

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For those of a certain age, Pretty Hate Machine will always evoke a particular form of teen-transgressive ressentiment.

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His original demographic was blue collar clients 35 to 45 years of age who wanted to put a machine in the basement.

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He sees government as an industrial machine, though he lives in the age of the network.

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Nor did he gain a top post until age 50, when he was named administrator of the First Ministry of Machine-building Industry.

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In his 1976 book The Dream Machine he looked back fondly on what he considered the golden age of American automaking--1946 to 1965.

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Let your smart card and the pop machine duke it out. n Only the best of breed will cut it in the age of infinite and zero.

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But bringing it back to the new age-old question what is a robot, Bokhari believes a robot is an intelligent, autonomous machine capable of doing a range of specialized tasks.

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