The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... sense of this liberation , it is because all too soon seventeenth - century science imprisoned the mind in an ideology that denied the realities of biological self - transformation and historic creativity . Though other cultures - like ...
... sense of this liberation , it is because all too soon seventeenth - century science imprisoned the mind in an ideology that denied the realities of biological self - transformation and historic creativity . Though other cultures - like ...
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... sense proposed by our distinguished chemist would be a backward step - more than three billion years back- ward the creation of life by increasing the number of automatons and fabricating whole societies of automatons that would take ...
... sense proposed by our distinguished chemist would be a backward step - more than three billion years back- ward the creation of life by increasing the number of automatons and fabricating whole societies of automatons that would take ...
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... sense , spatial adventurism has indeed the sinister advantages of war : all the more effectively because it recovers ... sense of fear and the possibility of a grisly death help restore the sense of reality . Short of a now unimaginable ...
... sense , spatial adventurism has indeed the sinister advantages of war : all the more effectively because it recovers ... sense of fear and the possibility of a grisly death help restore the sense of reality . Short of a now unimaginable ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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