"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."

"Early British economists held that the application of the principle of division of labor was the basis of manufacture…"

"The development of the Watt governor for steam engines, which adapted the power output of the engine automatically to…"

"[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually ill…"

"This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best inten…"

"In the main, Bacon prophesied the direction of subsequent progress. But he "anticipated" the advance. He did not see …"

"We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. It carrie…"

"Arguably the third industrial revolution was triggered by the invention of the World Wide Web at CERN."

"[Y]esterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and …"

"The Modernist reaction to the Enlightenment came in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, whose brutalizing eff…"