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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Bridle, James.     Subjects     Technology -- Social aspects.     Big data -- Social aspects.     Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.     Social change.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bridle, James.       by title:      New Dark Age : techn...       by call number:      303.483 B852n     Search the Web     Bridle, James.     Technology -- Social aspects.     Big data -- Social aspects.     Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.     Social change.       MARC Display

New Dark Age : technology, knowledge and the end of the future / James Bridle. by Bridle, James. Verso, 2018. Call #: 303.483 B852n Subjects Technology -- Social aspects.   Big data -- Social aspects.   Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.   Social change. ISBN:  9781786635471 (hc.) Description:  294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index. Summary:  "We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension. James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 303.483 B852n Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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