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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... utopia - indeed , one nineteenth - century utopia was called Freeland - the pervasive character of all utopias is their totalitarian abso- lutism , the reduction of variety and choice , and the effort to escape from such natural ...
... utopia - indeed , one nineteenth - century utopia was called Freeland - the pervasive character of all utopias is their totalitarian abso- lutism , the reduction of variety and choice , and the effort to escape from such natural ...
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... Utopia knows all of them ? Beneath the medieval garments of More's per- fect commonwealth an iron Robot has already begun to move his artificial limbs , plucking the fruits of life with iron claws . What is the meaning of these many ...
... Utopia knows all of them ? Beneath the medieval garments of More's per- fect commonwealth an iron Robot has already begun to move his artificial limbs , plucking the fruits of life with iron claws . What is the meaning of these many ...
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... utopia one better by giving his ' Modern Utopia ' a planetary scope . Unfortunately neither Bellamy's military organization nor Wells ' caste organization of ... UTOPIA TO KAKOTOPIA The literature of utopias BELLAMY'S BACKWARD DREAM 219.
... utopia one better by giving his ' Modern Utopia ' a planetary scope . Unfortunately neither Bellamy's military organization nor Wells ' caste organization of ... UTOPIA TO KAKOTOPIA The literature of utopias BELLAMY'S BACKWARD DREAM 219.
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