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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... continued to play a part : not only in pot - making , basketwork , and spinning and weaving , but in the specifically domestic arts which account for such a large part of human work : cooking , preserving , brewing , dyeing , washing ...
... continued to play a part : not only in pot - making , basketwork , and spinning and weaving , but in the specifically domestic arts which account for such a large part of human work : cooking , preserving , brewing , dyeing , washing ...
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... opera- tion this under - dimensioned system requires equally under - dimensioned men , whose values are those needed for the operation and the continued expansion of the system itself . The minds that are THE PARADOX OF AUTOMATION 183.
... opera- tion this under - dimensioned system requires equally under - dimensioned men , whose values are those needed for the operation and the continued expansion of the system itself . The minds that are THE PARADOX OF AUTOMATION 183.
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... continued unchecked . Fortunately , Nature employs a whole series of limiting devices which , over any sufficient period of time , would check inordinate quantitative increase and establish an equilibrium . Faced with similar threats in ...
... continued unchecked . Fortunately , Nature employs a whole series of limiting devices which , over any sufficient period of time , would check inordinate quantitative increase and establish an equilibrium . Faced with similar threats in ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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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