The pentagon of powerHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970 - 496 pages |
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... automation in a society that takes quantification and material expansion to be an ultimate good. And since the condition to be analyzed now exists in almost every phase of automation, from food production to nuclear weapons, I shall ...
... automation in a society that takes quantification and material expansion to be an ultimate good. And since the condition to be analyzed now exists in almost every phase of automation, from food production to nuclear weapons, I shall ...
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... automation; for it provided the master model for many other automatic machines; and it reached a degree of perfection finally, in the eighteenth-century chronometer, which set a standard for other technological refinements. The one ...
... automation; for it provided the master model for many other automatic machines; and it reached a degree of perfection finally, in the eighteenth-century chronometer, which set a standard for other technological refinements. The one ...
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... 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, though automation has been steadily gaining ground. Even ...
... 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, though automation has been steadily gaining ground. Even ...
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