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Rise of the Machines
by Thomas Rid
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"Dazzling.” —Financial Times As lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas. Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of machines. Cybernetics triggered blissful cults and military gizmos, the Whole Earth Catalog and the ...
First published: 2016 566 pages
ISBN: 9780393286014
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- eng
CyberneticsMachineryInformation warfareSocial aspectsHistoryTechnologyAutomationTechnology, social aspectsAutomation, social aspectsMachinery, history
