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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... increase of material goods or power . As modern man has reason gratefully to acknowledge , that confidence was not altogether misplaced . The increased number of people in the Western World who live out their normal life span today , as ...
... increase of material goods or power . As modern man has reason gratefully to acknowledge , that confidence was not altogether misplaced . The increased number of people in the Western World who live out their normal life span today , as ...
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... increase of energy available for both constructive and destructive social uses has been one of the main marks of technological progress , not only from the thirteenth century onward , as Henry Adams pointed out , but from the ear- liest ...
... increase of energy available for both constructive and destructive social uses has been one of the main marks of technological progress , not only from the thirteenth century onward , as Henry Adams pointed out , but from the ear- liest ...
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... increase of , 118 ; increase of collective , 246 ; intoxication with , 41 ; invisible ultimate , 275 ; jet , [ 3 ] ; nature of , 265 ; new implosion of , 238 ; Pentagon of , [ 7 ] , 164 , 166 , 192 , 275 , 303 , 374 , 431 , 432 ...
... increase of , 118 ; increase of collective , 246 ; intoxication with , 41 ; invisible ultimate , 275 ; jet , [ 3 ] ; nature of , 265 ; new implosion of , 238 ; Pentagon of , [ 7 ] , 164 , 166 , 192 , 275 , 303 , 374 , 431 , 432 ...
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