The Million-Year Picnic

I was re-reading an old favorite, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles_and this passage from the story _The Million Year Picnic jumped out at me:

Science ran too far ahead us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong things, emphazising machines instead of how to run the machines.

Ray Bradbury wrote this in 1946, by the way.