The "Nevertheless, (S)He Persisted" M & D Group Read.

[Mark Kohut]

p. 361. The Machine paragraph riff:

http://www.ediblegeography.com/in-the-time-of-full-mechanisation/
This book was quite popular, sold steadily, in the late sixties and early
seventies, just fyi.

Some album or group entitled* Mechanization Takes Command* in the eighties.

"Things are in the saddle and ride Mankind"---R.W. Emerson, 19th Century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

So, Machine was a capped Noun, outside of Pynchon's M & D era, a reified
overarching concept, even in 1909. Was Forster the one who did it?
If I, or anyone, cared enough, I'd research it more.