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... technologies would lead to unwanted product variation . Although this led to uniform products , it created a variety of problems . For example , it was difficult to adapt the assembly line to the production of goods when more and more ...
... technologies would lead to unwanted product variation . Although this led to uniform products , it created a variety of problems . For example , it was difficult to adapt the assembly line to the production of goods when more and more ...
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... technologies . Although these technologies currently dominate employees , increasingly they will be replacing humans . Employees are clearly controlled by such technologies as french - fry machines that ring when the fries are done and ...
... technologies . Although these technologies currently dominate employees , increasingly they will be replacing humans . Employees are clearly controlled by such technologies as french - fry machines that ring when the fries are done and ...
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... technologies like the mass media . Although we are able to sense many more things in this way , it is increasingly difficult to make them intelligible because we lack unmediated knowledge of them . As a result , in Virilio's view , we ...
... technologies like the mass media . Although we are able to sense many more things in this way , it is increasingly difficult to make them intelligible because we lack unmediated knowledge of them . As a result , in Virilio's view , we ...
Contents
Classical Grand Theories | 13 |
Classical Theories of Everyday Life | 42 |
Contemporary Theoretical Portraits of the Social World 1755 | 75 |
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