From Marie Howe, The Power of Words to Save Us, a conversation with Krista Tippet, May 2017

Ms. Howe:
And I was thinking the machines — what face do you look into more than any other face in your life? The face of my iPhone.

Ms. Tippett:
Your screen. Yeah.

Ms. Howe:
My screen. I gaze into that face. I do what it tells me to do. If aliens came down and saw us all walking around, what would we do? All of us are walking around…

Ms. Tippett:
[laughs] Who do they obey?

Ms. Howe:
…looking into the — “Oh, they serve these machines.” I mean, the machines rule us. I have no will when it comes to my machines, to the computer, hours doing emails. I never applied for that job. What happened? It happened in 10 years, 15 years. They rule. It’s different from what we expected.

https://onbeing.org/programs/marie-howe-the-power-of-words-to-save-us-may2017/#transcript