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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... atom bomb as a cheaper means for effecting the same result . The other name for this explosive increase of energy , then , was totali- tarian de - moralization : the same animus that since 1945 has led the chief garrison states to ...
... atom bomb as a cheaper means for effecting the same result . The other name for this explosive increase of energy , then , was totali- tarian de - moralization : the same animus that since 1945 has led the chief garrison states to ...
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... atom bomb , it was their innocence that concealed from them , at least in the initial stages , the dreadful ultimate consequences of their effort . Certainly the physicists who were alert to the immediate threat the splitting of the atom ...
... atom bomb , it was their innocence that concealed from them , at least in the initial stages , the dreadful ultimate consequences of their effort . Certainly the physicists who were alert to the immediate threat the splitting of the atom ...
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... atom bomb . Well before the first atom bomb was tested , the American Air Force had adopted the hitherto ' un- thinkable ' practice of the wholesale , indiscriminate bombing of con- centrated civilian populations : this paralleled ...
... atom bomb . Well before the first atom bomb was tested , the American Air Force had adopted the hitherto ' un- thinkable ' practice of the wholesale , indiscriminate bombing of con- centrated civilian populations : this paralleled ...
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