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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... production , with its specialization and fixation of human effort before the machine itself was sufficiently organized to take over the whole job . Standardization , prefabrication , and mass production were all first established in ...
... production , with its specialization and fixation of human effort before the machine itself was sufficiently organized to take over the whole job . Standardization , prefabrication , and mass production were all first established in ...
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... production but of ideal consumption under the machine system : rapid standardized production for equally rapid standardized consumption — with built - in waste and destruction as a means of averting financial bankruptcy through ...
... production but of ideal consumption under the machine system : rapid standardized production for equally rapid standardized consumption — with built - in waste and destruction as a means of averting financial bankruptcy through ...
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... production as they passed from one industry to another , from printing to arms production to textiles , are beyond dispute . And if the archetypal model for the new system of thought was the clock , that for standardized mass production ...
... production as they passed from one industry to another , from printing to arms production to textiles , are beyond dispute . And if the archetypal model for the new system of thought was the clock , that for standardized mass production ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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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