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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... beginning with the most influential , that of Salerno . Apart from the direct experience of the organism that physicians necessarily have , the desire for knowledge of nature largely took the form of a series of questions , put almost ...
... beginning with the most influential , that of Salerno . Apart from the direct experience of the organism that physicians necessarily have , the desire for knowledge of nature largely took the form of a series of questions , put almost ...
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... beginning of the nineteenth century onward derives from a succession of such master craftsmen , beginning with Joseph Bramah and Henry Mauds- lay , and continuing through Nasmyth , Whitworth , Muir , Lewis , and Clement , men who made ...
... beginning of the nineteenth century onward derives from a succession of such master craftsmen , beginning with Joseph Bramah and Henry Mauds- lay , and continuing through Nasmyth , Whitworth , Muir , Lewis , and Clement , men who made ...
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... beginning the social accompaniments of large- scale mechanization . This removal of limits had the effect of under- mining - by now almost totally destroying the earlier forms of poly- technics , and of replacing it with a monotechnics ...
... beginning the social accompaniments of large- scale mechanization . This removal of limits had the effect of under- mining - by now almost totally destroying the earlier forms of poly- technics , and of replacing it with a monotechnics ...
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