Robopaths: People as Machines

Yablonsky, Lewis. Robopaths: People as Machines. 1972. Baltimore: Penguin, 1972, 1973.

Contains a number of references to literature, theater, and film. Concentrates on robopathology: people becoming mechanized—losing compassion and other positive emotions. Talks of the state as machine and of "social machines" like corporations and many schools and families. This book can be viewed legitimately as a polemical extension of the observations of B. Bettelheim, "Joey: A Mechanical Boy" (see in this Category).[1]