1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith I. vi. 10 When I am confined to such machine Society..I fancy I am got into Powell's Commonwealth.
1940 W. Empson 63 It is not clear that in the new great machine or mass societies..there is the same room for the artist.
1997 49 74 Death and rebirth, labor and its products..are separated from each other in machine-society.