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That machines make history in some sense -that the level of technology has a direct bearing on the human drama -is of course obvious.That they do not make all of history, however that word be defined, is equally clear.The challenge, then, is to see if one can say something systematic about the matter, to see whether one can order the problem so that it becomes intellectually manageable.(Heilbroner, [1967(Heilbroner, [ ] 2008, p. 97), p. 97).
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