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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... of certain elements that which is capable , at some far point in its own evolution , of fulfilling its potentiality for becoming ' alive ' ; and it is with the emergence of living organisms that the qualities that Galileo rejected as ...
... of certain elements that which is capable , at some far point in its own evolution , of fulfilling its potentiality for becoming ' alive ' ; and it is with the emergence of living organisms that the qualities that Galileo rejected as ...
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Lewis Mumford. of the main traits of living organisms , the ability to reproduce itself . Though , given a sufficient number of parts and a sufficiently detailed program , self - replication by a machine is theoretically possible , this ...
Lewis Mumford. of the main traits of living organisms , the ability to reproduce itself . Though , given a sufficient number of parts and a sufficiently detailed program , self - replication by a machine is theoretically possible , this ...
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... of the body centered on the marvellous apparatus that animal organisms have developed to maintain their dynamic ... living organisms as opposed to random samples of mole- cules . Even more significantly , it describes the difference ...
... of the body centered on the marvellous apparatus that animal organisms have developed to maintain their dynamic ... living organisms as opposed to random samples of mole- cules . Even more significantly , it describes the difference ...
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