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Blood in the machine : the origins of the rebellion against Big Tech / Brian Merchant.

by Merchant, Brian.

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Little, Brown and Company, 2023.

303.48309 M554b

Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Industrialization -- Great Britain -- History.

Industrialization -- History.

Automation -- History.

Disruptive technologies -- History.

Disruptive technologies.

Technology and civilization -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Luddites -- History.

Technology and civilization -- History.

9780316487740 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Origins of the rebellion against Big Tech

xxiii, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Brian Merchant is the technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of the national bestseller The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone. He’s the co-founder of Terraform, Vice’s science fiction outlet, and the founder of Gizmodo’s Automaton project examining AI and the future of work. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Fast Company, and beyond. He lives in Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Two hundred years ago in rural England, working men and women rose up en masse rather than starve at the hands of the factory owners who were using machines to erase and degrade their livelihoods. This all-but-forgotten and deeply misunderstood class struggle nearly brought 19th century England to its knees. Intertwined with a lucid examination of our current age, the story of the Luddites, the working-class insurgency that took up arms against automation, this book reaches through time and space to tell a story about how technology changed our world - and how it's already changing our future."

"Journalist Merchant (The One Device) offers a stirring account of the Luddites’ 'messy rebellion' against new technological innovations in early-19th-century England. Merchant traces the narrative arcs of several groups, including the Luddites, skilled workers in the cloth industry whose lives were irreversibly overhauled by the arrival of new machinery (such as water-powered yarn-spinning machines and looms); the prominent cultural and literary figures, such as Lord Byron, who took an active interest in their grievances; and the factory owners who lived in fear of their nighttime attacks. The portrayal is one deeply sympathetic to the Luddite cause; Merchant is keen to deconstruct the modern, negative connotations of the term 'Luddite,' emphasizing that they were driven to act not by some blinding, stubborn hatred of technology, as is often assumed, but rather by a deep understanding of its potential pitfalls and a distaste for the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small number of privileged overseers. Merchant draws astute comparisons to technology's disruptions of jobs and livelihoods in the 21st century, using the rise of Uber and AI as prominent examples. This is a significant contribution to the history of the Industrial Revolution and a strong warning against complacency in the face of technological change." --Publishers Weekly.

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