The Million-Year Picnic

I was re-reading an old favorite, and this passage from Ray Bradbury’s 1946 short 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, The Martian Chronicles