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An economic sys- tem whose original purpose was to make men happy is now reducing them to slavery . It functions though it is oiled with human souls , greased with human sighs , cooled with human tears ...
An economic sys- tem whose original purpose was to make men happy is now reducing them to slavery . It functions though it is oiled with human souls , greased with human sighs , cooled with human tears ...
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Most of this increase in the human species has been made possible by the social in- troduction of technological procedures , that is , change in the means whereby we live as brought about solely by the introduction of technology .
Most of this increase in the human species has been made possible by the social in- troduction of technological procedures , that is , change in the means whereby we live as brought about solely by the introduction of technology .
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clearly implies that the machine will be controlled in that way because human nature will refuse to make the fundamental changes that would be required to set up a system of energy control . To which Technocracy would probably reply ...
clearly implies that the machine will be controlled in that way because human nature will refuse to make the fundamental changes that would be required to set up a system of energy control . To which Technocracy would probably reply ...
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