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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... brought together and intelligently digested by the empirical and historical sciences , the story of the technical and scientific advances that were made after the sixteenth century cannot be properly told , still less evaluated ...
... brought together and intelligently digested by the empirical and historical sciences , the story of the technical and scientific advances that were made after the sixteenth century cannot be properly told , still less evaluated ...
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... brought the desired conclusion - automatically . If indeed automata are artificial organ- isms , why cannot man , whose life is " but a motion of the Limbs " be brought equally under the control of external forces initiated and operated ...
... brought the desired conclusion - automatically . If indeed automata are artificial organ- isms , why cannot man , whose life is " but a motion of the Limbs " be brought equally under the control of external forces initiated and operated ...
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... brought into existence and magnified in every dimension by fresh technical advances . During the last half century this whole picture has changed : much more than anyone born after 1910 could realize from his personal impres- sions and ...
... brought into existence and magnified in every dimension by fresh technical advances . During the last half century this whole picture has changed : much more than anyone born after 1910 could realize from his personal impres- sions and ...
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