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Peter F. Drucker on Technology
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Peter F. Drucker on Technology

by Peter F. Drucker
July 2020
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
5h 4m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER FIVE

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The Pretechnological Civilization of 1900

The Pretechnological Civilization of 1900

MODERN MAN EVERYWHERE takes technological civilization for granted. Even primitive people in the jungles of Borneo or in the High Andes, who may themselves still live in the Early Bronze Age and in mud huts as they have for thousands of years, need no explanation when the movie they are watching shows the flipping of a light switch, the lifting of a telephone receiver, the starting of an automobile or plane, or the launching of another satellite. In mid-twentieth century the human race has come to feel that modern technology holds the promise of conquering ...

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