Myth of the Machine : Techniques and Human Development Condition:Like New Fast and Slow reveals where

Fast and Slow reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking

A thriller for our times

I want to bring America back

exuberant’ Financial Times‘Impossible to resist’ Daily Telegraph‘Twists and turns like a corkscrew of venomous snakes’ Stuart MacBride‘It has everything – intrigue

Myth of the Machine : Techniques and Human Development Condition:Like New Fast and Slow reveals whereMumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit (Eliot Fremont Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.