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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... complex , comparable to that which produced the colossal constructive transformations of the Pyramid Age in both Egypt and Mesopotamia . What I have hitherto designated with intentional looseness as the myth of the machine I now propose ...
... complex , comparable to that which produced the colossal constructive transformations of the Pyramid Age in both Egypt and Mesopotamia . What I have hitherto designated with intentional looseness as the myth of the machine I now propose ...
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... complex originally had their place and performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from their organic matrix and enclose them in an isolated sub- system centered not on ...
... complex originally had their place and performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from their organic matrix and enclose them in an isolated sub- system centered not on ...
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... complex increasingly underlies all these institutional structures ; and as it knits more closely together , seizing more power and governing wider areas , it tends to suppress original cultural differences that once , under feebler ...
... complex increasingly underlies all these institutional structures ; and as it knits more closely together , seizing more power and governing wider areas , it tends to suppress original cultural differences that once , under feebler ...
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