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... ELECTRONIC. ENTROPY. But perhaps another fate is actually in store for mankind if it should continue blindly on its present course: not an arrested development, with an eventual lapse into unconsciousness, or a transmutation of all ...
... ELECTRONIC. ENTROPY. But perhaps another fate is actually in store for mankind if it should continue blindly on its present course: not an arrested development, with an eventual lapse into unconsciousness, or a transmutation of all ...
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... electronic illusion. This illusion ignores the most characteristic feature of all organic forms, biological or cultural — their acceptance of limitations for the sake of ensuring the best life possible. Radio actually has scored some of ...
... electronic illusion. This illusion ignores the most characteristic feature of all organic forms, biological or cultural — their acceptance of limitations for the sake of ensuring the best life possible. Radio actually has scored some of ...
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... Electronic dissociation, 294 Electronic inventions, Mumford's early interpretation of, 295 Electronic media, heavy price of, 297; juvenile rapture over, 304 Electronic super-brain, 315 Electronics, 394 Eliade, Mircea, 35 'Elite ...
... Electronic dissociation, 294 Electronic inventions, Mumford's early interpretation of, 295 Electronic media, heavy price of, 297; juvenile rapture over, 304 Electronic super-brain, 315 Electronics, 394 Eliade, Mircea, 35 'Elite ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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