The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... machine that explains purposeful organization : it is organic functions that explain machines . The distinguishing mark of actual machines , even the most lifelike of computers , is that its powers and functions are derivative : their ...
... machine that explains purposeful organization : it is organic functions that explain machines . The distinguishing mark of actual machines , even the most lifelike of computers , is that its powers and functions are derivative : their ...
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... machine is theoretically possible , this sup- posed feat rests on an innocent self - deception . Who gives those directions for self - replication to a machine ? Certainly not the machine itself , or an ancestral model . No machine ...
... machine is theoretically possible , this sup- posed feat rests on an innocent self - deception . Who gives those directions for self - replication to a machine ? Certainly not the machine itself , or an ancestral model . No machine ...
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... machine . Correctly , he pointed out that the machine is an extension of man's organic properties , a further development of his bodily gifts , enlarging their range and adding new qualities , as musical instruments extend the range and ...
... machine . Correctly , he pointed out that the machine is an extension of man's organic properties , a further development of his bodily gifts , enlarging their range and adding new qualities , as musical instruments extend the range and ...
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RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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