Mumford Big's Introduction to the Machines

There has to be this certain cultural foundation in place for us to be able to even understand the language of what these machines are doing why it's good bad etc etc. Mumford Mumford is quick probably like many other historians of technology before him to say that machines have been round for for him around 3,000 years so he and they're not a new phenomena. He likens them to organs they are specific process based machines with a highly specialized focused end. There isn't really this interplay there isn't this understanding of creation there isn’t really this understanding of control in a certain sense but you can use a knife to pry open a window to spread butter or poke a