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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 2016566 pages
303.48309
Category
Security
Priority
Must-Read
Author works
2
Editions known
8
Classification
Dewey (DDC)
303.48309303.483
Library of Congress (LCC)
CB0478T0014.50000000.R535 2016
Subjects
AutomationAutomation, social aspectsCyberneticsHistoryInformation warfareMachineryMachinery, historySocial aspectsTechnologyTechnology and civilizationTechnology, social aspects
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ISBN 9780393286014English
DATE DUE
First published2016
StatusNOT YET
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