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The failure of technology

Perfection Without Purpose

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An edition of The failure of technology (1949)

The failure of technology

Perfection Without Purpose

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The Failure of technology was written during a few short months in the spring and early summer of 1939. For this reason, it seems to have the freshness and intensity of an improvisation. But the reader will sense that it was the foreboding of impending disaster rather than the happiness of a strong inspiration which drove on the author. He knew he had to use the short time left before the storm finally broke. Thus it mattered little to him, one it was written, that the manuscript had to be hidden from those heedless slaves of soulless materialism, the Nazis, and could only see the light of day six years after it was written.

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First Sentence

"Stories of mechanical utopias, as a glance at literature shows, are far from rare; on the contrary, there are so many of them and they find the readers so readily that one is justified in assuming a general need for literature of this sort."

Table of Contents

I. The Literature of a Danger Zone
Page 1
II. The Delusion of the SAving of Labor
Page 5
III. The Delusion of Wealth
Page 9
IV. The Distribution of Poverty
Page 14
V. The Pillage of the Earth
Page 18
VI. Technology versus the Profit Motive
Page 26
VII. The Invasion of Life by the Automaton
Page 30
VIII. The Invasion of Life by Dead Time
Page 34
IX. The Tyranny of Causalism over Man
Page 39
X. The Victory of Dead Time over Life Time
Page 42
XI. The Myth of Exact science
Page 46
XII. The Perversion of Freedom
Page 51
XIII. Socialism as the surrender to Technology
Page 57
XIV. Technology Serves Not Mankind, but Itself
Page 62
XV. The Fallacy of Specialist Thought
Page 66
XVI. Technology Creates Bureaucracy
Page 70
XVII. The Ravages of Functionalism
Page 74
XVIII. Technology's Attack upon Law and Property
Page 79
XIX. The Subjugation of Science
Page 84
XX. The Destruction of Money
Page 88
XXI. Technical Training verses Education
Page 91
XXII. "Scientific" Nutrition -- a Fraud
Page 94
XXIII. Technology Usurps the State
Page 97
XXIV. The Disintegration of Nature by Scientific Thought
Page 97
XXV. Functionalism versus Vitality
Page 107
XXVI. The Vengeance of the Fettered Elements
Page 112
XXVII. The Immaturity of Technological Perfection
Page 121
XXVIII. Technology Prepares for the Invasion of Ideologies
Page 125
XXIX. The Mirage of Socialism
Page 132
XXX. Self-Deception by Photography
Page 138
XXXI. The Stampeding of the Masses
Page 141
XXXII. Masses and Imperialism
Page 146
XXXIII. The MEchanical Sterility of Modern Sports
Page 150
XXXIV. Synthetic Emotions by Synthetic Amusements
Page 155
XXXV. The Modern Longing for Vitality and Devitalization
Page 159
XXXVI. Technology and War
Page 162
XXXVII. The Self-frustration of Social Security
Page 169
XXXVIII. The Downfall of the Mechanized State
Page 173

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204 p.
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OL22142246M

First Sentence

"Stories of mechanical utopias, as a glance at literature shows, are far from rare; on the contrary, there are so many of them and they find the readers so readily that one is justified in assuming a general need for literature of this sort."

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