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countries is a final step in a history of national aggressiveness, and the
beginning of a new integrated, global world. While many historians have
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not diverted along the way to an ultimate confrontation with another
power. At the end of the book, almost as an afterthought, he admits
that "in the technetronic era, philosophy and politics will be crucial,"
which is the first time either philosophy or politics appear in his bland
portrait of the future. They come far too late to humanize this mech–
anistic paradise.
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