As an instrument of work engaging human energies in a manner far surpassing the lure of war, as a social dissolvent and readjuster, and as a philosophy of action, technology must be brought into the main stream of history, if the course of history is to be surveyed correctly and ‘the dark imminence of the unknown future’ is to be in any way penetrated...Charles A. Beard (1932).
If we can grasp what John Stuart Mill called the ‘principia media’ of a society, if we can grasp its major trends; in brief, if we can understand the structural transformation of our epoch, we might have ‘a basis for prediction.’...C. Wright Mills (1959).
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Finn, J.D. Automation and education: III. Technology and the instructional process. ETR&D 8, 5–26 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02713371
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