Many Germans in the 1920s and 30s came to believe, despite the horrific photographs, that the war had embodied the noblest and most exhilarating aspects of human life; and specifically that warfare represented the ultimate in technological modernity and moral freedom.
The Vietnam War was the ultimate Moloch, a technological war machine eating America.
Of course, the ultimate measure of technological success isn't productive prowess but quality of life.
Predictions about the future, rather than a focus on the past, is what gives science its ultimate explanatory and technological power.
What dignifies human endeavour if the labour of most, or all, humans becomes surplus to requirements?People, companies and governments find it hard to discuss the ultimate goals of technological change in the abstract.
The Concord of the 1840s, where, in Thoreau's perception, men "lead lives of quiet desperation", slave-drivers of themselves with "no time to be any thing but a machine", was by our lights a bucolic world, the steam engine being the technological ultimate and the main labour farm labour.
Glucose and glucose-6-phosphate concentrations in meat juice and drip loss were higher, and ultimate pH and technological yield lower in loins of the RN− carriers than those of non-carriers.
First, these are buildings designed in an era when "modern" architecture was seen as the ultimate answer to the problems of technological society -- when architecture proclaimed itself free of the burden of history.
The use of hand-held vital microscopy, clinically introduced by us, has gone through a number of technological developments with the ultimate aim of introducing these devices for routine clinical use.
