The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... noösphere : a film of ' mind ' that is now spreading around the earth , forming a distinct , increasingly unified layer of conscious cerebration . This process he calls the " unification , technification , growing rationalization of the ...
... noösphere : a film of ' mind ' that is now spreading around the earth , forming a distinct , increasingly unified layer of conscious cerebration . This process he calls the " unification , technification , growing rationalization of the ...
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... noösphere . At this point conscious existence will have shifted to a kind of ectoplasmic super - brain , all - knowing , all - powerful . In creating this far - from - loving God , man will have de - created Nature and destroyed himself ...
... noösphere . At this point conscious existence will have shifted to a kind of ectoplasmic super - brain , all - knowing , all - powerful . In creating this far - from - loving God , man will have de - created Nature and destroyed himself ...
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... noösphere would function as a single world - brain , in which individual souls would lose their identity and forfeit their uniqueness as self - directing organisms in order to exalt and magnify the process of thought itself - thought ...
... noösphere would function as a single world - brain , in which individual souls would lose their identity and forfeit their uniqueness as self - directing organisms in order to exalt and magnify the process of thought itself - thought ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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