A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity’s relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Pages: 384
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0141982519
ISBN 13: 9780141982519