Kuno says this to Vashti while telling the story of how he escaped to Earth’s surface and saw the hills of Wessex (a region in the southern UK). It is perhaps the clearest expression of Kuno’s critique of the Machine. He points out that although humanity created the Machine to suit their needs, it has now escaped their control. The Machine has taken away human beings’ ability to directly experience the world, it has made human relationships superficial, and it encourages such dependence that humans feel compelled to worship it as a god. Rather than having the Machine serve humanity…