His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use th...eir best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn t...oday from the humanities as well as from the scientists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, bu...t, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces--in the beginning, there was spice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence in ...the possibility of certain knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics ...that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish wit...h strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the orga...nic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the promise of automation seemed to exert a magnetic force, a seduction that promised to fulfill a dream of perfect control and... heal egos wounded by their needs for certainty. The dream contains the image of "people serving a smart machine," but in the shadow of the dream, human beings have lost the experience of critical judgment that would allow them to no longer simply respond but to know better than, to question, to say no.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »