The Course of Modern Times: a Note on the Evolutionary History of Machines and Humans
by Du Junli
About This Novel
What is ancient times? What is modern? How did the world we live in now come to be? How is our life different from that of our ancestors? So, please follow this book and follow the trajectory of machines and gears, back to past lives, back to ancient times, and back to history. From the bows and arrows of the Stone Age to the wheels of the Bronze Age, humans began their journey from tools to machines. When humans discovered time and tamed it, humans were eventually tamed by time; language differentiates humans from animals, but words reveal the secrets of God. Clocks and printing presses became the most mysterious metaphors about machines and modern times. Clocks create time, printed books eliminate time. The arrival of the printed book gave rise to the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. Starting 200 years ago, textile machines and steam engines opened the door to the industrial age for us. Trains and ships broke down the boundaries of space. The Celestial Empire declined, and the United States became a model of a modern country. War unleashed human fanaticism, but humans were ruthlessly slaughtered by machines. Electric lights eliminate night, telephones eliminate space, and the Internet brings humans into a digital global village. From cars to computers, humans have shaped machines according to their own imagination, and at the same time reshaped humans themselves, making humans more and more like machines until they are replaced by machines. This is modern times.
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