¶ Tools: Craft Tool & Industrial Tools
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Tools: Craft Tool & Industrial Tools:
“In relation to the computer-tool-hookups of automation, it is to be noted that all tools are externalizations of originally integral functions of human organisms. But externalized functions such as that of the cupped hand to hold water are capable, when translated into ceramic cups, of holding hotter or more acid liquids than the human hand could. This is to say that the limits of capability of the externalized functioning are extended but are not unique in principle. Whereas the craft tools developed by man operated independently, the industrial tools develop interdependently. The machine lathe requires the blast furnace and vice versa. Individual craft tools are the externalized counterpart of the individual’s separate functions, while industrial tools are the organic externalization of man’s integral metabolic regeneration.”
¶ Citations
- THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 29 Aug’64
