Eotechnic	Paleotechnic	Neotechnic
1000-1750	1750-1900	1900-2000
water & wood complex	coal & iron complex	electricity & alloy complex
handicraft	mass production	white collar
tool	machine-tool	machine
unique quality	standardization	replication
extract from nature	pollution of nature	conservation of nature
workshop	factory	corporation
worker	capitalist	consumer
pastoral	small town	big city
unique quality	standardization	replication
nature	museum	media
mechanic	inventor	science
God	progress	equilibrium
Rembrandt	Guggenheim	Edison

"The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age: even today no other machine is so ubiquitous." Its "product is seconds and minutes: by its essential nature it dissociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world of mathmateically measurable sequences: the special world of science." (pp. 14-15)
"The mine is the first completely inorganic environment to be created and lived in by man." (p. 69) "More closely than any other industry, mining was bound up with the first development of modern capitalism." (p. 74) "The miner's notion of value, like that of the financier's, tends to be a purely abstract and quantitative one. The miner works not for love or for nourishment, but to 'make his pile'." (p. 77)
"But most important of all was the part played by glass in the eotechnic economy. Through glass new worlds were conceived and brought within reach an unveiled." (p. 124)
"As a civilization, we have not yet entered the neotechnic phase: we are still living between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, in a cultural pseudomorph.... Paleotechnic purposes with neotechnic means, that is the most obvious characteristic of the present order." (pp. 265-267)
"The romantic reaction took many forms: the cult of history and nationalism, the cult of nature, and the cult of the primitive." (p. 287)
"Out machine system is beginning to approach a state of internal equilibrium. Dynamic equilibirium, not indefinite progress, is the mark of the opening age: balance, not rapid one-sided advance: conservation, not reckless pillage." (p. 429)

Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt, 1934. 495 p. front., plates. 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 447-474. Subject Technology and civilization. Industrial arts -- History. CL Book Stacks T15 .M8