"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling
history of the machine and critical study of its effects on
civilization in 1934--before television, the personal computer, and
the Internet even appeared on our periphery.
Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of
culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and
traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern
technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the
Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral,
economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we
used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal
parts powerful history and polemic criticism, "Technics and
Civilization "was the first comprehensive attempt in English to
portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand
years--and to predict the pull the technological still holds over
us today.
" ""The questions posed in the first paragraph of "Technics and
Civilization "still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of
a century after they were written."--"Journal of Technology and
Culture"
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