The Pentagon of Power, Volume 2In 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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Page 113
The smallest discovery, the least significant experiment, may nevertheless fill up
gaps in knowledge and lead others to some larger results. In itself the method of
analytic dismemberment favored such piecework: but by the same token, ...
The smallest discovery, the least significant experiment, may nevertheless fill up
gaps in knowledge and lead others to some larger results. In itself the method of
analytic dismemberment favored such piecework: but by the same token, ...
Page 174
And since the condition to be analyzed now exists in almost every phase of
automation, from food production to nuclear weapons, I shall confine myself
largely to the field I have the closest acquaintance with: the automation of
knowledge.
And since the condition to be analyzed now exists in almost every phase of
automation, from food production to nuclear weapons, I shall confine myself
largely to the field I have the closest acquaintance with: the automation of
knowledge.
Page 181
The exponents of mass production of knowledge have created a hundred
journals devoted only to abstracts of papers; and now a further abstract of all
these abstracts has been proposed. At the terminal stage of this particular
solution, all that ...
The exponents of mass production of knowledge have created a hundred
journals devoted only to abstracts of papers; and now a further abstract of all
these abstracts has been proposed. At the terminal stage of this particular
solution, all that ...
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