morlocks

We'd basically wind up as morlocks, assuming the machines don't just grind us up into lubricant first.

That will let you split society into castes real fast: Eloi and Morlocks come to mind.

Wells) I wondered how the split between Eloi and Morlocks happened, and where in the timeline it started.

The Morlocks spend their time reading and writing text, some of it code.

Nah, programmers and engineers aren't Morlocks to executives Eloi -- when was the last time a programmer or engineer ate a C-suite exec?

It's almost reminiscent of Morlocks and Eloi from HG Well's Time Machine.

I just try to keep in mind that eventually the Morlocks end up eating the Eloi.

No Elois and Morlocks in our future through that avenue.

Pretending Morlocks don’t exist doesn’t make them go away.

S., except, perhaps, if there are Morlocks [1].

They've continually decided to ignore how the magic boxes work, decided to embrace the shiny over the functional, and in general cast us as the Morlocks and them as the Eloi.

We’ll call them eloi and we’ll be the morlocks.

The filter is somewhere between "human-level smarts" and "interplanetary civilization." The universe is full of Morlocks.

Poor Tolkein, he became beloved by the very Morlocks[18], err, 'easily corruptible men of middle earth" he warned about.

> According to Facebook[1], they exist to "give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." Yup, and the Morlocks feed the Eloi.

“Technological progress" They're wannabe-Morlocks.

Morlocks and Eloi discussion again: the Eloi have their pre-digested clickbait content fed to them in a stream of thought-free celebrity drivel.

(Morlocks eat Eloi, which is about as far as one can go in rejecting empathy and dignity.) source: Lanier, Jaron (2013-03-07).

Nawh, we'll be the Eloi and they'll become the Morlocks.