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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... Exploration ; and that characterization covers many of the events that followed . But the most significant part of this new exploration took place in the mind ; and what is more the cultural New World that was opened up still was ...
... Exploration ; and that characterization covers many of the events that followed . But the most significant part of this new exploration took place in the mind ; and what is more the cultural New World that was opened up still was ...
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... exploration that beckoned modern man : the exploration of the earth , hitherto never encompassed as a whole , and the exploration of the skies , and of all the physical phenomena , cosmic and earthbound , that could be interpreted and ...
... exploration that beckoned modern man : the exploration of the earth , hitherto never encompassed as a whole , and the exploration of the skies , and of all the physical phenomena , cosmic and earthbound , that could be interpreted and ...
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... exploration has reached a natural terminus : the last frontier is closed . The landing of the first two astronauts on the moon was not the beginning of a new age of cosmic exploration but the end . The scientific technological ...
... exploration has reached a natural terminus : the last frontier is closed . The landing of the first two astronauts on the moon was not the beginning of a new age of cosmic exploration but the end . The scientific technological ...
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