Myth of the Machine : Techniques and Human Development Condition:Like New After twenty-three years

After twenty-three years

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Fast and Slow reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking

Myth of the Machine : Techniques and Human Development Condition:Like New After twenty-three yearsMumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit (Eliot Fremont Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.