"Technology...has become the prime source of material change and so determines the pattern of the total social fabric."
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In 1968, reported in O. W. Markley and Willis W. Harman (eds.) Changing Images of Man (Pergamon Press, 1982) ch. 3, p. 45
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Robert Jacobus Forbes
Robert Jacobus Forbes or Robert James Forbes (21 April 1900 – 13 January 1973) was a Dutch chemist and historian of science and professor in the history of applied science and technology at the University of Amsterdam.
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