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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... megatechnics resorts to a score of different devices : consumer credit , installment buying , multiple packaging , non - functional designs , meretri- cious novelties , shoddy materials , defective workmanship , built - in fragility ...
... megatechnics resorts to a score of different devices : consumer credit , installment buying , multiple packaging , non - functional designs , meretri- cious novelties , shoddy materials , defective workmanship , built - in fragility ...
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... megatechnics , he will without doubt enjoy a higher standard of material culture — at least of a certain specialized kind — than any other society has ever achieved before . If anything , the luxuries will be more plentiful than the ...
... megatechnics , he will without doubt enjoy a higher standard of material culture — at least of a certain specialized kind — than any other society has ever achieved before . If anything , the luxuries will be more plentiful than the ...
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... megatechnics , these claims , these promises , are valid , and these achieve- ments are genuine . The separate benefits , if detached from the long - term human purposes and a meaningful pattern of life , are indisputable . None of ...
... megatechnics , these claims , these promises , are valid , and these achieve- ments are genuine . The separate benefits , if detached from the long - term human purposes and a meaningful pattern of life , are indisputable . None of ...
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