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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... potentialities in our day , in the willingness , on the part of military and political strategists , to give to agents of extermination they have created - nuclear weapons , rockets , lethal poisons and bac- teria - the authority to ...
... potentialities in our day , in the willingness , on the part of military and political strategists , to give to agents of extermination they have created - nuclear weapons , rockets , lethal poisons and bac- teria - the authority to ...
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... potentialities in the computer makes the contemporary art exhibition shown here ( top ) , in all its pervasive blankness and artful nullity , an ideal representation of its missing dimensions . Those who are so fascinated by the ...
... potentialities in the computer makes the contemporary art exhibition shown here ( top ) , in all its pervasive blankness and artful nullity , an ideal representation of its missing dimensions . Those who are so fascinated by the ...
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... potentialities of life to those that can be conveniently processed and transmuted by its electronic God . In this the functions that could not be so processed - human histories , personal and collective artifacts , autonomous activities ...
... potentialities of life to those that can be conveniently processed and transmuted by its electronic God . In this the functions that could not be so processed - human histories , personal and collective artifacts , autonomous activities ...
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