I read this book twice through when I was 20 & still pick it up from time to time. When he's not pontificating, Mumford's great. Peter Rob Schaap wrote: > > G'day Bill, > > >Who do you suggest is a good critic of technology I should read, rather > >than Manders? You're right about him, by the time I got through reading > >his diatribe against TV, bad as I hate TV, I was almost ready to plug in > >my own TV set again. > > I still rate Lewis Mumford (*Technics & Civilisation* comes to mind). The > list'll tell us quickly enough if he's gone way out of fashion, I s'pose. > > I love the bloke, anyway. > > Cheers, > Rob.