"In The Pentagon of Power, the second and final volume of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Here is a fully developed historical explanation of the irrationalities and destructions that have undermined the highest achievements of every civilization. Mr Mumford demonstrates how the quantitative goals of modern technics -- speed, mass production, automation, instant communication, and remote control -- have inevitably brought about pollution, waste, ecological disruption, and human e ... More from Google