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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... hand . England's leadership in the production of automatic machines from the beginning of the nineteenth century onward derives from a succession of such master craftsmen , beginning with Joseph Bramah and Henry Mauds- lay , and ...
... hand . England's leadership in the production of automatic machines from the beginning of the nineteenth century onward derives from a succession of such master craftsmen , beginning with Joseph Bramah and Henry Mauds- lay , and ...
Page 148
... hand labor and drove it out of the market . This general movement was in turn abetted by two other inven- tions , both social , which gave the advantage to machine operations over the small surviving workshops that utilized local ...
... hand labor and drove it out of the market . This general movement was in turn abetted by two other inven- tions , both social , which gave the advantage to machine operations over the small surviving workshops that utilized local ...
Page 374
... hand , vital proposals for dissociating the University from its commitments to the power system ; for overcoming the bureaucratization of learning ; for deflating the business economy of points and credits and purely formalistic degrees ...
... hand , vital proposals for dissociating the University from its commitments to the power system ; for overcoming the bureaucratization of learning ; for deflating the business economy of points and credits and purely formalistic degrees ...
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