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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... TECHNICAL LIBERATION However slow in pace , pre - mechanized industry and agriculture relied so largely on manual labor that this gave it a freedom and flexibility that a system more dependent upon a permanent assemblage of specialized ...
... TECHNICAL LIBERATION However slow in pace , pre - mechanized industry and agriculture relied so largely on manual labor that this gave it a freedom and flexibility that a system more dependent upon a permanent assemblage of specialized ...
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... technical triumph , which distin- guished him from other tool - using and nest - building animals . Athletic exhibition- ism ranges from the feats of Hindu yogins in regulating human breathing and heartbeat to Charles Blondin's ...
... technical triumph , which distin- guished him from other tool - using and nest - building animals . Athletic exhibition- ism ranges from the feats of Hindu yogins in regulating human breathing and heartbeat to Charles Blondin's ...
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... Technical advances , misreading of , 145 Technical development , case for , 195 Technical heritage , belated preservation of , 156 Technical improvements , foreign origins of , 132 Technical innovations , liberating influence of , 237 ...
... Technical advances , misreading of , 145 Technical development , case for , 195 Technical heritage , belated preservation of , 156 Technical improvements , foreign origins of , 132 Technical innovations , liberating influence of , 237 ...
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