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The strange machine

machine, absurd, stranger

The universe is a chaotic succession of events, encounters and misencounters. The complete absence of rational meaning is the rule from atoms collisions, to lives, and human existence in general. What doesn't prevent  humanity’s attempt to find order where none exists. The machines are our most passionate attempt to achieve such meaning. They allow us to build, to make, to destroy. To run, to submerge and to fly. But more than that, machines change our way of living and, commonly, become themselves the meaning that we aimed at first. This paper examines to which extent the machines influence our lives, passing from enabling tools to the core motivator for our actions.