Voices

Masters and servants

William Morris, How We Live and How We Might Live

Read against the machine Instead of beauty, branding

An Arts and Crafts workshop with handmade textiles and a dark machine intruding beside them.
Illustration generated with ChatGPT by OpenAI, prompted and selected by Greg Conrad Smith, 2026.

It is the allowing machines to be our masters and not our servants that so injures the beauty of life nowadays.

–William Morris, How We Live and How We Might Live