# Machines Will Not Free Us from Thinking by Norbert Wiener > "The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking." > **— Norbert Wiener**, *God & Golem, Inc. (1964)* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: God & Golem, Inc. (1964). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Substrate-Independent Evolution|Substrate-Independent Evolution]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking." — Norbert Wiener, God & Golem, Inc. (1964) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-norbert-wiener-machines-not-free-thinking ```