Volume XIV, Number 1, Winter 2021. This issue of Lapham's Quarterly prompts the questions of mankind's relation to the machine - best friend or worst enemy, saving grace or engine of doom? Among the Contributors: Rebecca West, Al-Jazari, Jina Moore, Paul Klee, Charlotte Bronte, George Dyson, Babur, Lewis Mumford, Leonardo da Vinci, Sophocles, Ted Kaczynski, Ray Bradbury, Pearl S. Buck, Ada Lovelace, Simon Winchester, Curtis White.