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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... planets of the solar system for a square mile of inhabited earth . If this nightmarish conclusion were peculiar to ... planet . He sees in the growing pile of civilization only a " foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon ...
... planets of the solar system for a square mile of inhabited earth . If this nightmarish conclusion were peculiar to ... planet . He sees in the growing pile of civilization only a " foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon ...
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... planet - nor would there have been such a planet as ours , predisposed , as Lawrence Henderson demonstrated , to life . Despite many fixations and arrests , setbacks and losses , the cumulative results of human development during the ...
... planet - nor would there have been such a planet as ours , predisposed , as Lawrence Henderson demonstrated , to life . Despite many fixations and arrests , setbacks and losses , the cumulative results of human development during the ...
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... planetary ' film of mind , ' or abstract intelli- gence , embracing all human activities , or rather reducing and ... planet . And yet in one sense this whole totalitarian system , more mon- strous in its final assemblage than the ...
... planetary ' film of mind , ' or abstract intelli- gence , embracing all human activities , or rather reducing and ... planet . And yet in one sense this whole totalitarian system , more mon- strous in its final assemblage than the ...
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