The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... final solution to the problems of mankind , only in the sense that Hitler's extermination program was a final solution for the ' Jewish problem . ' 6 : THE PARADOX OF AUTOMATION Here we face the great paradox of automation , put once ...
... final solution to the problems of mankind , only in the sense that Hitler's extermination program was a final solution for the ' Jewish problem . ' 6 : THE PARADOX OF AUTOMATION Here we face the great paradox of automation , put once ...
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... final sacrificial victims ; for when the planetary megamachine reaches its terminal point of soulless perfection , the originating human intelligence will have become completely absorbed and thus eliminated . So man's final achievement ...
... final sacrificial victims ; for when the planetary megamachine reaches its terminal point of soulless perfection , the originating human intelligence will have become completely absorbed and thus eliminated . So man's final achievement ...
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... final result would be the same : the Big Brain , a universal system of control from which no escape would be possible on this planet - or even from this planet . And yet in one sense this whole totalitarian system , more mon- strous in ...
... final result would be the same : the Big Brain , a universal system of control from which no escape would be possible on this planet - or even from this planet . And yet in one sense this whole totalitarian system , more mon- strous in ...
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RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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