Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

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$30.00  $27.90
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Little Brown and Company
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496
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English
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Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780316487740

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About the Author

Brian Merchant is the bestselling author of The One Device. His work has appeared in WIRED, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's, The Guardian, and beyond. He is the founder of Terraform, VICE Media's speculative fiction publication, and Automaton, a special project examining AI and automation at Gizmodo. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

"This is an absolutely indispensable, shocking, and fascinating tale by one of today's most important technology writers. This riveting book is as much a work of history as it is an urgent examination of our ability to resist the overwhelming changes technology is wreaking on our lives. The Luddites knew that automation, job loss and the consolidation of wealth aren't inevitable. We can shape these forces if we're willing to break a loom or two."--Christopher Leonard, New York Times bestselling author of Kochland and The Lords of Easy Money
"A thrilling history and a stirring manifesto for seizing the means of production, or smashing it, when necessary. Automation has always been about turning people into machines: brainless and disposable. To be a Luddite is to demand a say in the future. It's not enough to ask what a machine does - we have to ask who it does it for and who it does it to."--Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother and The Internet Con