Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have made progress. Indeed, we flatter ourselves that we can make machines that think like human beings, while not always pausing to reflect that in the process we have also succeeded in making millions of human beings who can feel and think like machines. It is a sorry reflection.

1957. Anthropologist Dr Stephen Juan is the Ashley Montagu Fellow for the Public Understanding of Human Sciences at the University of Sydney. Montagu who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940 taught and lectured at Harvard Princeton University Rutgers University the University of California and New York University.

As a young man he changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28 1905 – November 26 1999) was a British-American anthropologist and humanist of Jewish ancestry who popularized topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu".