Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

by Thomas Rid

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393354954
• ISBN13: 9780393354959
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.0"