Technics and Civilization
first publication date: 1934
genre: nonfiction
part of the series: Renewal of Life
series ordinal: 1
original language: English
movement: historicism
main subject: history of technology
Technics and Civilization is a 1934 book by American philosopher and historian of technology Lewis Mumford. The book presents the history of technology and its role in shaping and being shaped by civilizations. According to Mumford, modern technology has its roots in the Middle Ages rather than in the Industrial Revolution. It is the moral, economic, and political choices we make, not the machines we use, Mumford argues, that have produced a capitalist industrialized machine-oriented economy, whose imperfect fruits serve the majority so imperfectly. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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3- date of publication: 1963ISBN-13: 978-0-15-688254-5
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