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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... industrial process . After the seventeenth century an increasing number of anonymous workers were exploited for the benefit of equally anonymous and invisible and morally indifferent absentee owners . Thus the various components of ...
... industrial process . After the seventeenth century an increasing number of anonymous workers were exploited for the benefit of equally anonymous and invisible and morally indifferent absentee owners . Thus the various components of ...
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... industrial conscription is resented as a burden . " This singular mode of government would be the equivalent of ' alumni control ' in a university ; and one can hardly imagine a better means of inducing administrative arthritis , if any ...
... industrial conscription is resented as a burden . " This singular mode of government would be the equivalent of ' alumni control ' in a university ; and one can hardly imagine a better means of inducing administrative arthritis , if any ...
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... Industrial arts , military support for , 150 Industrial pollution , [ 22 ] , [ 23 ] Industrial Revolution , 130 , 147 , 154 ; medieval start of , 169 Industrialism , human costs of , 170 Industrialization , military prelude to , 150 ...
... Industrial arts , military support for , 150 Industrial pollution , [ 22 ] , [ 23 ] Industrial Revolution , 130 , 147 , 154 ; medieval start of , 169 Industrialism , human costs of , 170 Industrialization , military prelude to , 150 ...
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