Against the Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against the Machine write by Nicols Fox. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Against the Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the cars we drive to the instant messages we receive, from debate about genetically modified foods to astonishing strides in cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology, it would be hard to deny technology's powerful grip on our lives. To stop and ask whether this digitized, implanted reality is quite what we had in mind when we opted for progress, or to ask if we might not be creating more problems than we solve, is likely to peg us as hopelessly backward or suspiciously eccentric. Yet not only questioning, but challenging technology turns out to have a long and noble history. In this timely and incisive work, Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She brilliantly illuminates the rich but oftentimes unrecognized literary and philosophical tradition that has existed for nearly two centuries, since the first Luddites—the ""machine breaking"" followers of the mythical Ned Ludd—lifted their sledgehammers in protest against the Industrial Revolution. Tracing that current of thought through some of the great minds of the 19th and 20th centuries—William Blake, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, William Morris, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Graves, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and many others—Fox demonstrates that modern protests against consumptive lifestyles and misgivings about the relentless march of mechanization are part of a fascinating hidden history. She shows as well that the Luddite tradition can yield important insights into how we might reshape both technology and modern life so that human, community, and environmental values take precedence over the demands of the machine. In Against the Machine, Nicols Fox writes with compelling immediacy—bringing a new dimension and depth to the debate over what technology means, both now and for our future.
Business, the Magazine for Office, Store and Factory
Business, the Magazine for Office, Store and Factory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Business, the Magazine for Office, Store and Factory write by . This book was released on 1901. Business, the Magazine for Office, Store and Factory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Machine Stops Illustrated
The Machine Stops Illustrated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Machine Stops Illustrated write by E M Forster. This book was released on 2020-12-31. The Machine Stops Illustrated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories.[1] In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs, predicted technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet.
The FN MAG Machine Gun
The FN MAG Machine Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The FN MAG Machine Gun write by Chris McNab. This book was released on 2018-07-26. The FN MAG Machine Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals. Three qualities have guaranteed this enduring status – reliability, ease of operation, and firepower. Several nations have license-produced the weapon as their standard GPMG, including the British (as the L7) and the Americans (M240), and in total more than 80 nations have adopted the FN MAG. The machine gun has also been modified extensively for vehicular, naval, and aircraft platforms, demonstrating versatility in the air, on sea, and on land. In this book, Chris McNab charts the technical evolution of this extraordinary weapon, created by Belgian company Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal. From the jungles of South East Asia, to the deserts of the Middle East, and the icy battlefields of the Falklands, this study explores the origins, development, combat use, and legacy of the FN MAG machine gun, a dominant weapon in its field for more than a half-century.
Typographical Printing-Surfaces
Typographical Printing-Surfaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Typographical Printing-Surfaces write by A. Harriette. This book was released on . Typographical Printing-Surfaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
