Modern Machinery and Its Influence on Human Beings
Like so many products of technology—consider the automobile or the Walkman used by teenagers—television can isolate people even within the...
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The “Idiot Box”
Everyone watches television, yet only a small minority could win a quiz show by naming its inventor. He was a...
The Bomb and the Soviet Physicists
Stalin learned from President Truman at Potsdam in July 1945 that the United States “had a new weapon of unusual...
The dream of immortality
In 1726, Jonathan Swift, an irreverent critic of modern science, published a satire on humanity’s fear of death and its...
Man and the machine
Humanity’s mistrust of machines—or rather, the mistrust felt by only part of humanity—is nothing new. History is full of examples....
