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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Page 121
... limited minds . But it is not , perhaps , an accident that most of the great spirits in science , from Kepler and Newton to Faraday and Einstein , kept alive in their thought the presence of God - not as a mode of explaining events ...
... limited minds . But it is not , perhaps , an accident that most of the great spirits in science , from Kepler and Newton to Faraday and Einstein , kept alive in their thought the presence of God - not as a mode of explaining events ...
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... limited section of it . Here , too , communication between the two parts of a double machine is difficult and limited . Even when the individual believes that science contributes to the human ends which he has at heart , his belief ...
... limited section of it . Here , too , communication between the two parts of a double machine is difficult and limited . Even when the individual believes that science contributes to the human ends which he has at heart , his belief ...
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... limited by space and time , will be limited only by the amount of energy available and the mechanical perfection and accessibility of the apparatus . When the radio telephone is supplemented by television com- munication will differ ...
... limited by space and time , will be limited only by the amount of energy available and the mechanical perfection and accessibility of the apparatus . When the radio telephone is supplemented by television com- munication will differ ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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