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Human Thought: New Orientation Due to Automatism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Robert J. van Egten
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The modern engineer, because of his tendency to express himself in language which, even in reference to very simple things, systematically retreats into mathematical symbolism—strictly incomprehensible to the average man—enrols himself, unconsciously or deliberately, in a jealously closed caste in which those we call “technocrats” shut themselves up. This is the caste which seeks to be the sole elite and necessary heir of the former nobility in the new social “pattern.”

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 7 , Issue 27 , September 1959 , pp. 82 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © 1959 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1. McCulloch.

2. A. Valensin.

3. Maurice Lachin, "L'Automation au service de I'homme."

4. Norbert Weiner, The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., I95o), p. 16.

5. J. T. Culbertson, "Some Uneconomical Robots."

6. The writer's "Le demarrage de l'automation."

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12. Stafford Beer, "The Irrelevance of Automation."