Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cabot has also installed a downstairs buzzer system. The front and back doors remain locked all day, and no one without a key can get into the dorm without buzzing the girl at the bells desk for admittance...
Ironically, the day the buzzer system was installed, Cabot was robbed. However, Wilhelmina Powell, Cabot House resident, says that the new system has been helpful in preventing robberies ever since...
Moors Hall, where a prowler was discovered at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, is also trying to get a buzzer system installed...
...other he labels the authoritarian technology. In less developed civilizations, authoritarian technologies consisted of men organized as human machines to produce for kings and priests. Today, he warns, we are on the threshold of a new king of authoritarian technology: "The center of authority in this new system," he wrote in "Now Let Man Take Over," "is no longer a visible personality, an all-powerful king: even in totalitarian dictatorships the center now lies in the system itself, invisible but omnipresent...
Mumford considers the McCarthy movement and the revolt in the Universities proofs of his hypotheses and signs of hope. The first, he feels, was an effort to recapture for human beings a system that has become increasingly inward-looking--taking orders from its computers and social scientists instead of its subjects. The University upheaval he sees as a healthy effort to restore the University to its rightful place as detached critic of the system instead of participant in its oppression of human life. "Everytime a professor goes to the Pentagon he is binding the University that much closer...