Machines for perpetual laziness

It is a contradiction in human behaviour that the more we are concerned about the outcome of our work, the less we would actually like to work. We want to have all works done by others. The fact that invention of machinery has its origin in laziness will bring the point easily home to you. It's a wonder that our civilisation is developing at rapid pace despite ( and because of ) our inclination to lethargy.
It is a law of physics that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. A machine or equipment works as per the energy we exert on it. Objects, whatever be their quantity, are unable to make a motion on their own. We make them move. That is why despite robots or computers, we are always on the move. However, scientific laws are not eternal. They are always open to challenge. So have they always been so far. Can there be a machine which creates energy on it sown? Can the input of energy far exceed its output? Our lazy ancestors asked these questions time and again. The result: a machine called perpetual motion machine.
Perpetual motion machine dates back to 1150, when Indian mathematician and astronomer Bhaskara claimed that he invented a wheel which would run forever. During the Middle Ages a number of gadgets that are full of 'free energy' were brought to public. Leonardo Da Vinci drew sketches of such machines which, if powered by a little energy, will be on the move forever. Philosophers predicted of a time, when machines would keep man immobile. During Industrial Revolution, when many predictions came to true, as many perpetual motion machines rolled out as there are crazy people. In 1917, American President Woodrow Wilson protected an inventor who claimed that he invented an energy-free machine. The last of these crazy machines were made in 2008 by a person named Thane Heins. His gadget, named Perepiteia, is being analysed by physicists. Perepiteia is generator in which a magnetic friction is converted into magnetic boost which constantly produces electric energy.
We like to live in a world of make-beliefs. Since inventions like atom bombs have made us suspicious of science as a useful discipline, perpetual motion machines, which tear into pieces time-tested laws of physics, find enough space in our imagination. Remember the first law of thermodynamics. It says that the internal energy of a system is as much as the energy exerted into it minus the work done by the surroundings. Perpetual motion machine challenges the law by saying that the internal energy far exceeds the output. But a question remains: when does such a machine make man lazy? When too much energy helps a system develop intelligence and process of thinking. But a note of alarm in passing:
Will the machines enslave us in a distant future and make us to work much more than what we do today. A dreary prospect, oh lazy, crazy men.