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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... nuclear weapons , the superhighways , the space rockets , the underground control centers , the collective nuclear shelters ( tombs ) - seem equally to validate and exalt the new religion . No other religion has ever produced so many ...
... nuclear weapons , the superhighways , the space rockets , the underground control centers , the collective nuclear shelters ( tombs ) - seem equally to validate and exalt the new religion . No other religion has ever produced so many ...
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... nuclear pyramid may turn out to be not nuclear weapons themselves or some irretrievable act of extermination that they may bring about . Some- thing even worse may be in store , and should it go far enough , be equally irretrievable ...
... nuclear pyramid may turn out to be not nuclear weapons themselves or some irretrievable act of extermination that they may bring about . Some- thing even worse may be in store , and should it go far enough , be equally irretrievable ...
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... Nuclear absolutism , 254 Nuclear Age , parallel of , with Pyramid Age , 257 Nuclear bombs , 75 ; damage done by , 362 Nuclear catastrophe , youth's anticipation of , 372 Nuclear destruction , nightmare antici- pations of , 234 ...
... Nuclear absolutism , 254 Nuclear Age , parallel of , with Pyramid Age , 257 Nuclear bombs , 75 ; damage done by , 362 Nuclear catastrophe , youth's anticipation of , 372 Nuclear destruction , nightmare antici- pations of , 234 ...
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