Project Gutenberg 2025-02-19 Public domain in the USA. 143 Garrett, Garet 1878 1954 Garrett, Edward Peter Ouroboros; or, the mechanical extension of mankind $aLondon :$bKegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., $c1926. To-day and to-morrow series Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Ouroboros; or, the mechanical extension of mankind" by Garet Garrett is a philosophical treatise written in the early 20th century. The work explores the evolution of humanity in relation to machines and mechanical inventions and examines how these advancements have transformed society, economics, and the nature of toil. The thematic insight focuses on humanity's unending quest to escape labor through mechanization, only to find themselves entrenched in an even more profound cycle of production and consumption. At the start of the treatise, the author presents a narrative of humanity's historical struggle to escape the burdens of work, tracing this journey from the agricultural society to the age of machines. He discusses how the advent of technology and efficient machinery aimed to liberate individuals from manual labor but ultimately resulted in an overwhelming obligation to maintain and feed the very systems designed to serve them. As Garrett delves into the paradox of surplus production and the implications of mechanization, he raises thought-provoking questions about the nature of economic necessity and human fulfillment in the industrial landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/ouroborosormecha00garruoft/page/n7/mode/2up 20220909020426garrett 1926 GB Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Machinery Machinery in the workplace HD Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Economics 160785 2025-06-30T03:33:12.404294 text/html 135981 2025-02-19T18:40:05 text/html 268637 2025-06-30T03:33:16.798226 application/epub+zip 266849 2025-06-30T03:33:13.629270 application/epub+zip 266850 2025-06-30T03:33:12.927271 application/epub+zip 1049248 2025-06-30T03:33:19.114271 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1031771 2025-06-30T03:33:16.241266 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 133425 2025-06-30T03:33:12.079264 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 113393 2025-02-19T18:40:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16107 2025-06-30T03:33:19.256264 application/rdf+xml 19654 2025-06-30T03:33:13.170270 image/jpeg 2628 2025-06-30T03:33:13.058271 image/jpeg 730732 2025-06-30T03:33:12.424247 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia