Part I: The mechanization of work
1. The coming of machines
3. The rise of capitalism
4. Economists and Luddites
5. Why Europe and not Asia?
7. Upskilling or downskilling?
Part II: The quest for perfection
8. Straightening the crooked timber
10. The devil in the machine
11. The torment of modernity
12. Technics and civilization
13. From utopia to dystopia
Part III: Towards apocalypse
14. The coming of the computer
16. Liberation versus entrapment