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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... already been assembled in dream . What Francis Bacon did in " The New Atlantis ' was to suggest for the first time the kind of organization that would make it possible for these dreams to come true ; not merely to fulfill them , but to ...
... already been assembled in dream . What Francis Bacon did in " The New Atlantis ' was to suggest for the first time the kind of organization that would make it possible for these dreams to come true ; not merely to fulfill them , but to ...
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... already initiated by the invention of the electric telegraph , the dynamo , and the electric motor . In terms of this variegated , infinitely rich planetary heritage , the prospects offered by the bare mechanical world picture were already ...
... already initiated by the invention of the electric telegraph , the dynamo , and the electric motor . In terms of this variegated , infinitely rich planetary heritage , the prospects offered by the bare mechanical world picture were already ...
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... already produced a formidable and still growing ruling caste in the United States and Soviet Russia : a caste comparable to the Janis- saries in the heyday of Turkish despotism . The next logical step , as with the Janissaries , would ...
... already produced a formidable and still growing ruling caste in the United States and Soviet Russia : a caste comparable to the Janis- saries in the heyday of Turkish despotism . The next logical step , as with the Janissaries , would ...
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