It can be inferred from the passage that the author regards traditional Western views of labor as problematic because they

A． fail to forecast the extent to which workers may become liberated through the assistance of machines
B． avoid encouraging alliances between workers through technological bonds
C． establish a distinction between autonomous laborer and machine, without recognizing how one affects the another
D． do not succeed in achieving the radical break with the past that Gibson attempts to make
E． provide a notion of a brave new world which exists more in the imagination than in reality