Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

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Price
$27.95  $25.99
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
Pages
432
Dimensions
6.1 X 1.6 X 9.3 inches | 1.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780393286007
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About the Author
Thomas Rid is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He testified on disinformation in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is also the author of Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History.
Reviews
Everyone I know should read this book. It will be a classic.--Robert Lee, former U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations officer and SANS instructor
Rid's fascinating survey of the oscillating hopes and fears expressed by the cybernetic mythos offers an implicit lesson.--Michael Saler
Rid's book offers a useful history as well as a chance to re-examine our current technological crossroads.--Zeynep Tufekci (07/24/2016)
A common theme connects war machines, computer networks, social media, ubiquitous surveillance, and virtual reality. For fifty years or more the same people and the same ideas weave through these innovations united by the term 'cyber, ' as in cyberspace and cybernetics. Read this amazing history and you'll go: 'Aha!'-- (07/24/2016)
Rid, a professor in security studies at King's College London, is a fine chronicler of the debate, deftly recounting the hope, hype, and fears that have accompanied our thinking on automation. . . . Fascinating. . . Dazzling.-- (07/24/2016)
Rise of The Machines isn't just an insightful history of cybernetics but also a fascinating journey with the twentieth-century thinkers--from tech giants and eccentric mathematicians to science fiction writers and counterculture gurus--who have shaped how we understand machines and ourselves.--P. W. Singer, author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know and Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
Rise of the Machines is a fascinating history of cybernetics, and of the visionaries like Norbert Wiener who first imagined the potential--and peril--of machines that would begin to replicate the capabilities of the human mind.--Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots