“A brilliant historical and critical account of the effect of the artificial environment on man and of man on the environment, a necessary account, one for which we have waited too long in English.”

The New York Times

“The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”

Journal of Technology and Culture

“An extraordinary, wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light.”

Journal of Philosophy

“It was a very important book, because it started this debate about the effect technologies have on societies from a political viewpoint: whether they actually enable certain political forces to take greater control over individuals. It was particularly important given the fact that it was written in the 1930s, with the rise of Nazism in Europe. I think many of the debates we’re having now--about, for example, is the internet changing our brains?--all essentially go back to some of those criticisms by Mumford.”

Evgeny Morozov | Five Books