NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Industrial Society, Auguste Comte, Sine Wave
5 Apr 2016
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Jan. 4: 19th c. science / museums and zoos. Objects made by people to objects made from machines. Shift in where people live, country to city, urbanization. Change in how people experience their lives, surrounded by machines, machines powered by steam and electricity. Attitude about science and progress, 19thcentury- century of progress. Supercomputers, highly intelligent and will eliminate the human race, they will increase their own intelligence, survival instinct, competitive (bill gates, elon. Possess internal source of power, used to hitch it up to water, wind or steam, but now own life force, creates anxiety, the rise of science (thermodynamics), link between organic life and machines is energy. Machines need energy to work and so do humans, consume and expand. Luddites- neal ludd, scared of technology, saboteur. Anxiety of what machines represent, an undercurrent in 19th century, worried about progress. Why is nature under industrial assault, emergence of city/natural parks, zoos.
