If, as many anthropologists still hold, the making and using of tools as one of the chief sources of primitive man's intellectual development, is it not time that we asked ourselves what will happen to man if he departs as completely as he now threatens to do from his primal polytechnic occupations? Since they can no longer be pursued at a profit, perhaps they will have to be restored as modes of sport and recreation, even more as helpful — increasingly essential — forms of personal service and mutual aid.


Technical Liberation - The Myth of the Machine (1967-1970) - The Pentagon of Power (1970)

Lewis Mumford Quotes

If, as many anthropologists still hold, the making and using of tools as one of the chief sources of primitive man's intellectual development, is it...

If, as many anthropologists still hold, the making and using of tools as one of the chief sources of primitive man's intellectual development, is it...

If, as many anthropologists still hold, the making and using of tools as one of the chief sources of primitive man's intellectual development, is it...

If, as many anthropologists still hold, the making and using of tools as one of the chief sources of primitive man's intellectual development, is it...