http://www.nd.edu/~ehalton/mumfordbio.html

A Brief Biography of
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
by Eugene Halton

....simultaneously subverts those possibilities and actually ends up tending toward a diminution of purpose. He shows in lucid detail how the modern ethos released a Pandora's box of mechanical marvels which eventually threatened to absorb all human purposes into The Myth of the Machine....

http://www.nd.edu/~ehalton/MumfordWTC.html