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... activities are wiped out by universal cybernetics and automation? Strange to say, it is only recently that the full implications of such a blanking out of the largest portion of man's working life has presented itself as a problem ...
... activities are wiped out by universal cybernetics and automation? Strange to say, it is only recently that the full implications of such a blanking out of the largest portion of man's working life has presented itself as a problem ...
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... activities, or rather reducing and concentrating those activities for the enhancement of knowledge and power, the final result would be the same: the Big Brain, a universal system of control from which no escape would be possible on ...
... activities, or rather reducing and concentrating those activities for the enhancement of knowledge and power, the final result would be the same: the Big Brain, a universal system of control from which no escape would be possible on ...
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... activities, is a mystery as profound as the forces that bind together the components of the atom and account for the character and behavior of the elements. In man that mystery can be experienced, but not described, still less explained ...
... activities, is a mystery as profound as the forces that bind together the components of the atom and account for the character and behavior of the elements. In man that mystery can be experienced, but not described, still less explained ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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