Technics and Civilization

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Technics and Civilization

First UK edition
Author	Lewis Mumford
Language	English
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Harcourt, Brace and Company (US) Routledge (UK)
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	495

Technics and Civilization is a 1934 book by American philosopher and historian of technology Lewis Mumford. The book presents the history of technology and its role in shaping and being shaped by civilizations. According to Mumford, modern technology has its roots in the Middle Ages rather than in the Industrial Revolution. It is the moral, economic, and political choices we make, not the machines we use, Mumford argues, that have produced a capitalist industrialized machine-oriented economy, whose imperfect fruits serve the majority so imperfectly.