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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... automation in a society that takes quantification and material expansion to be an ultimate good . And since the condition to be analyzed now exists in almost every phase of automation , from food production to nuclear weapons , I shall ...
... automation in a society that takes quantification and material expansion to be an ultimate good . And since the condition to be analyzed now exists in almost every phase of automation , from food production to nuclear weapons , I shall ...
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... automated . Those who still imagine that automation first took place in the nineteen - forties , and was impossible until the computer was invented , have a lot of homework to do . Purely as a machine , the clock remained - until the ...
... automated . Those who still imagine that automation first took place in the nineteen - forties , and was impossible until the computer was invented , have a lot of homework to do . Purely as a machine , the clock remained - until the ...
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... automation . As for the eventual assemblage of a completely automated world society , only inno- cents could contemplate such a goal as the highest possible culmination of human evolution . It would be a final solution to the problems ...
... automation . As for the eventual assemblage of a completely automated world society , only inno- cents could contemplate such a goal as the highest possible culmination of human evolution . It would be a final solution to the problems ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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