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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Page 133
... quantity production , as such , did not play a part except where the guild system itself had broken down . As late as the eighteenth century , it is interesting to note , the builders of the Carpenters Company of Phila- delphia were ...
... quantity production , as such , did not play a part except where the guild system itself had broken down . As late as the eighteenth century , it is interesting to note , the builders of the Carpenters Company of Phila- delphia were ...
Page 182
... quantity - and postpones the real solution , which must be conceived on quite other than purely mechanical lines : namely , by a reassertion of human selectivity and moral self - discipline , leading to more continent productivity ...
... quantity - and postpones the real solution , which must be conceived on quite other than purely mechanical lines : namely , by a reassertion of human selectivity and moral self - discipline , leading to more continent productivity ...
Page 334
... quantity and speed , as if quantity in itself guaranteed value in the product quantified . Plainly , then , it is not the mechanical or electronic products as such that intelligent minds question , but the system that produces them ...
... quantity and speed , as if quantity in itself guaranteed value in the product quantified . Plainly , then , it is not the mechanical or electronic products as such that intelligent minds question , but the system that produces them ...
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