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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
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Security
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2
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DDC 303.48309 LCC CB-0478.00000000 AutomationAutomation, social aspectsCyberneticsHistoryInformation warfareMachineryMachinery, historySocial aspects
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ISBN 9780393286014 English
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