Mumford and the Machine Mindset

Mumford says there is a neg entropy of specialization which makes it sound stupidly complicated. People are losing skills in this sense that they were in their reliance on machines not only a skills lost but someone's someone's work maybe reliant on two or three machines and then their life becomes highly specialized, he writes. The move towards machines for Mumford is a move towards in personality so you specialize machines standardize the automate processesThis ends up sort of you know cutting off the rough edges of things and everyone gets the same thingeveryone does the same process and it removes the personality of things.