The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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Page 222
... activities . What Clarke was virtually saying at this point is what H. G. Wells , his most persuasive forerunner , uttered in a final wail of despair at the point of his own death : " Mind is at the end of its tether . " Mind itself ...
... activities . What Clarke was virtually saying at this point is what H. G. Wells , his most persuasive forerunner , uttered in a final wail of despair at the point of his own death : " Mind is at the end of its tether . " Mind itself ...
Page 319
... activities , or rather reducing and concentrating those activities for the enhancement of knowledge and power , the final result would be the same : the Big Brain , a universal system of control from which no escape would be possible on ...
... activities , or rather reducing and concentrating those activities for the enhancement of knowledge and power , the final result would be the same : the Big Brain , a universal system of control from which no escape would be possible on ...
Page 395
... activities , unless supplanted for practical reasons by a simpler and more limited scheme , it has saved mechanization from many embarrassments , just as humane village customs and traditions and even older animal loyalties have often ...
... activities , unless supplanted for practical reasons by a simpler and more limited scheme , it has saved mechanization from many embarrassments , just as humane village customs and traditions and even older animal loyalties have often ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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