Automaton—Live & Unplugged

/* Study the past if you would define the future */
/*                                               */
/* Your presence is requested,                   */
/* To shape the next millennium.                 */

if (holesPunched == 1) {
    printf("Bring just one self.\n");
} else if (holesPunched == 2) {
    printf("Bring one plus self.\n");
}

/* There's no I in automaton,                    */
/* So don't be Robotic.                          */
/* We'll go through the Process,                 */
/* And make magic with brilliant Automation.     */

/* Come when the sun tips the towers,            */
/* But not yet the trees,                        */
/* When the sky hands you flowers,               */
/* And whispers a breeze.                        */

Automaton noun / au·tom·a·ton / ôˈtäməˌtän (as early as 400 BC)
a moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being

Antikythera mechanism (~100 BC)
oldest known example of an analogue computer, used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses

Automation noun / au·to·ma·tion / ˌôdəˈmāSH(ə)n
the technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a system operate automatically (as in Book of Ingenious Devices, 850 AD)