The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical e…

Lewis Mumford
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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ✨ Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). Technics and Civilization, p.16, University of Chicago Press
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