The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 55
Page 145
... improvement that actually had been made between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries through the fabrication of ... improvements in both shipping and agriculture . Because the Netherlands took the lead in this development it became ...
... improvement that actually had been made between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries through the fabrication of ... improvements in both shipping and agriculture . Because the Netherlands took the lead in this development it became ...
Page 198
... improvements in natural and " mechanick " philosophy were being matched by improvements in Divine Knowledge , so that physical nature and human nature would be renewed simultaneously . Result : " the virtuosi will im- prove natural ...
... improvements in natural and " mechanick " philosophy were being matched by improvements in Divine Knowledge , so that physical nature and human nature would be renewed simultaneously . Result : " the virtuosi will im- prove natural ...
Page 206
... improvements were often notable , it is perhaps even more notable that not a single one owed anything directly to ... improvement . Sinfulness no longer consisted in falling short of human potentialities : it now meant to fall short of ...
... improvements were often notable , it is perhaps even more notable that not a single one owed anything directly to ... improvement . Sinfulness no longer consisted in falling short of human potentialities : it now meant to fall short of ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
Copyright | |
19 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolute abstract achieved activities actually already ancient atom automatic automation Bacon become biological Christian civilization Comenius communication contemporary cosmic culture demands Descartes destruction dream economy economy of abundance effect electronic energy environment established evolution existence experience exploration extermination fact fantasies final forces Francis Bacon functions further future Galileo habitat Henry Adams idea ideological immense increase industrial institutions intelligence invention Kepler knowledge labor limited machine man's mass production mechanical world picture megamachine megatechnics ment merely method military mind mode modern moral nature nineteenth century noƶsphere Norbert Wiener nuclear observed once original Patrick Geddes physical planet plenitude political absolutism population possible potentialities power complex power system practical present progress purpose Pyramid Age quantity reality result scientific scientists social society space subjective symbolic technical Technics and Civilization technocratic tion totalitarian transformation turn ultimate utopia whole York