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the tireless army humanity built to do our dirty work, then quietly handed our jobs to
means Devices or systems, often powered and made of moving parts, built to perform tasks with little or no human effort.
from From Latin 'machina' — a device, contrivance, or even a clever trick — which came through French 'machine' into English. The Latin itself traces back to a Greek root, the Doric 'machana,' a cousin of 'mechanos' (resource, expedient) and the source of 'mechanism.' So buried in the word is the old idea not just of an engine but of ingenuity — a cunning means to an end.
first machineThe lever, described by Archimedes around 250 BCE
word originFrom Greek makhana, meaning a clever contrivance
simple sixAll machines descend from six classical simple ones
perpetual motionForever impossible, yet patent offices still get applications
turing's dreamA theoretical machine that can compute anything computable