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Rid, Thomas, 1975-
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Cybernetics -- History.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Automation -- Social aspects.
Information warfare -- History.
Machinery -- History.
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Rid, Thomas, 1975-
Cybernetics -- History.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Automation -- Social aspects.
Information warfare -- History.
Machinery -- History.
MARC Display
Rise of the machines : a cybernetic
history
/ Thomas Rid.
by
Rid, Thomas, 1975-
W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Call #:
303.48309 R542r
Subjects
Cybernetics
--
History
.
Technology
--
Social aspects.
Automation
--
Social aspects.
Information
warfare
--
History
.
Machinery
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780393286007 (hc.)
Edition:
1st edition.
Description:
xvi, 414 p., 32 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-385) and index.
Contents:
Control and communication at war
--
Cybernetics
--
Automation
--
Organisms
--
Culture
--
Space
--
Anarchy
--
War
--
Fall of the machines.
Summary:
"Springing from the febrile 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. This vision would radically transform the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. From the Cold War's monumental SAGE bomber defense system to enhanced humans, Wiener's scheme turned computers from machines of assured destruction into engines of brilliant utopias. Cybernetics triggered blissful cults, the Whole Earth Catalog, and feminist manifestos, just as it fueled martial gizmos and the air force's foray into virtual space. As Rid shows, Cybernetics proved a powerful tool for two competing factions - those who sought to make a better world and those who sought to control the one at hand. In the Bay Area, techno-libertarians embraced networked machines as the portal to a new electronic frontier: a peaceful, open space of freedom. In Washington, DC, cyberspace provided the perfect theater for dominance and war. Meanwhile the future arrived secretly in 1996, with Moonlight Maze, dawn of a new age of digital state-on-state espionage. That first cyberwar went on for years - and indeed has never stopped. In our long-promised cybernetic future, the line between utopia and dystopia continues to be disturbingly thin."--Provided by publisher.
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