The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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Page 184
... once the system becomes universal . Its exponents , even if they are able to recognize its deficiencies , see no way of overcoming them except by a further exten- sion of automation and cybernation . Thus a large - scale processing of ...
... once the system becomes universal . Its exponents , even if they are able to recognize its deficiencies , see no way of overcoming them except by a further exten- sion of automation and cybernation . Thus a large - scale processing of ...
Page 342
... once the megamachine is in full operation , there is plenty of admonitory evidence , almost from the time that written records are available . Nothing is more striking throughout history than the chronic disaffection , the malaise , the ...
... once the megamachine is in full operation , there is plenty of admonitory evidence , almost from the time that written records are available . Nothing is more striking throughout history than the chronic disaffection , the malaise , the ...
Page 353
... once the working class had seized the military and bureaucratic apparatus of the state , it intensified the counter - efforts of the ruling classes to rebuild the megamachine by im- perialist military conquests and by total conscription ...
... once the working class had seized the military and bureaucratic apparatus of the state , it intensified the counter - efforts of the ruling classes to rebuild the megamachine by im- perialist military conquests and by total conscription ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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