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*Paleotechnic (1700-1900) - "The invention of coal-fired steam powered factories and the installation of capital-intensive machinery leads to a necessarily gigantic round-the-clock scale of production supported by unskilled machine tenders. Labour becomes a commodity, rather than an inalienable set of skills, the labourer who tended machines, lived in slums, and was paid starvation wages, became physically stunted and socially and spiritually stultified." - Wikipedia | *Paleotechnic (1700-1900) - "The invention of coal-fired steam powered factories and the installation of capital-intensive machinery leads to a necessarily gigantic round-the-clock scale of production supported by unskilled machine tenders. Labour becomes a commodity, rather than an inalienable set of skills, the labourer who tended machines, lived in slums, and was paid starvation wages, became physically stunted and socially and spiritually stultified." - Wikipedia | ||
*Monks invented ordnance and gunpowder. | *Monks invented ordnance and gunpowder. | ||
*Leading utopians of eotecnnic period brood upon the machine as the savior. Note that this has not changed with today's technoutopians, such as Kurzweil and Diamandis | |||
Revision as of 19:04, 4 March 2018
Seminal work by Lewis Me mford.
- Neotechnic times, Mumford presciently notes that a small producer can deliver what is needed when it is needed more efficiently than paleotechnic assembly lines. Combining this with modern technology, this implies economic distribution via localized eco-industry.
- Paleotechnic (1700-1900) - "The invention of coal-fired steam powered factories and the installation of capital-intensive machinery leads to a necessarily gigantic round-the-clock scale of production supported by unskilled machine tenders. Labour becomes a commodity, rather than an inalienable set of skills, the labourer who tended machines, lived in slums, and was paid starvation wages, became physically stunted and socially and spiritually stultified." - Wikipedia
- Monks invented ordnance and gunpowder.
- Leading utopians of eotecnnic period brood upon the machine as the savior. Note that this has not changed with today's technoutopians, such as Kurzweil and Diamandis