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Peter Drucker writing on “The Technological Revolution” of our
time in Technology and Culture (vol. II, no. 4, 1961, p. 348)
states: “There is only one thing we do not know about the
Technological Revolution—but it is essential: What happened to
bring about the basic change in attitudes, beliefs, and values
which released it? ‘Scientific progress’, I have tried to show, had
little to do with it. But how responsible was the great change in
world outlook which, a century earlier, had brought about the
great Scientific Revolution?” The Gutenberg Galaxy at least
attempts to supply the “one thing we do not know.” But even
so, there may well prove to be some other things!
The method employed throughout this study is directly
related to what Claude Bernard presented in his classic
introduction to The Study of Experimental Medicine.
Observation, Bernard explains (pp. 8­9), consists in noting