All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (1967, Richard Brautigan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace
the phrases in the parens are the tell here
@codinghorror Lost context in Brautigan's imagery is that computers of that era were still room-sized beasts with blinking lights. The PDP8 was still new, and the PDP11 wouldn't appear for a few years.