The Myth of the Machine, Volume 2Shows that man himself has from the beginning been and still is the central fact of human life today. |
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... fantasies today , now that their realization has proved feasible . The fact that these fantasies should have appeared , fully fleshed , in Kepler's mind at the very moment when the first halting theoretic advances were being made ...
... fantasies today , now that their realization has proved feasible . The fact that these fantasies should have appeared , fully fleshed , in Kepler's mind at the very moment when the first halting theoretic advances were being made ...
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... fantasies and given their projectors a freedom from sensible inhibitions hitherto enjoyed only in the form of nocturnal dreams . As a result , their acutest exhibitions of intelligence are not to be distinguished from the addled ...
... fantasies and given their projectors a freedom from sensible inhibitions hitherto enjoyed only in the form of nocturnal dreams . As a result , their acutest exhibitions of intelligence are not to be distinguished from the addled ...
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... fantasies : piling monster upon monster , horror upon horror , violence upon violence , and thereby obliterating in the mind even the bare animal faith in existence . In the past these psychotic impulses had repeatedly erupted among the ...
... fantasies : piling monster upon monster , horror upon horror , violence upon violence , and thereby obliterating in the mind even the bare animal faith in existence . In the past these psychotic impulses had repeatedly erupted among the ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accepted achieved activities actually already ancient authority automatic automation became become beginning brought century civilization collective communication complex continued culture demands Descartes destruction direct economy effect effort energy environment equally established existence experience exploration fact final forces functions further future give human idea improvements increase industrial institutions intelligence invention knowledge later least less limited living machine man's mass material means mechanical megamachine megatechnics merely method military mind mode moral nature necessary never objective observed once operation organic original past perhaps physical possible power system practical present production progress proved reality remained result scientific scientists seemed sense single social society space subjective success sufficient symbolic taken technical thought tion turn ultimate United universal whole world picture York