Robert Skidelsky The Machine Age , An Idea, A History, A Warning Hardcover Book

Name: Robert Skidelsky The Machine Age , An Idea, A History, A Warning Hardcover Book
Brand: Robert Skidelsky
SKU: P-7e6c1487-6796-4e68-beef-ee8def3f173c

Robert Skidelsky The Machine Age , An Idea, A History, A Warning Hardcover Book thumbnail

Price Alert

There are currently no offers available. Please check back later or explore similar products.

Price Alert

There are currently no offers available. Please check back later or explore similar products.

Price Alert

There are currently no offers available. Please check back later or explore similar products.

Price Alert

There are currently no offers available. Please check back later or explore similar products.

Price details

Product Information

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanitys relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the longstanding fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother. And for the first time, artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster disaster caused by our own activities. Scientists join imaginative writers in warning us of the fate of Icarus, whose wings melted because he flew too close to the sun. This book tells the story of our fractured relationship with machines from humanitys first tools down to the present and into the future. It raises the crucial question of why some parts of the world developed a machine civilisation and not others, and traces the interactions between capitalism and technology, and between science and religion, in the making of the modern world. Taking in the peaks of philosophy and triumphs of science, the foundation of economics and speculations of fiction, Robert Skidelsky embarks on a bold intellectual journey through the evolution of our understanding of technology and what this means for our lives and politics. Unless we understand technology as a system of ideas rather than as a necessity, he writes, we will be powerless to choose which... | Robert Skidelsky The Machine Age : An Idea, a History, a Warning Hardcover Book

Product Specifications

GeslachtUnisex

Sizehttps://www.debenhams.com/product/robert-skidelsky-the-machine-age-an-idea-a-history-a-warning-hardcover-book_p-7e6c1487-6796-4e68-beef-ee8def3f173c?colour=Multi&size=One%20Size

Reviews

0,0

No Ratings Yet

Be the first to share your experience with this product!

We couldn't find any suggested products right now.

Robert Skidelsky The Machine Age , An Idea, A History, A Warning Hardcover Book

Price details

Product Information

Product Specifications

Reviews

You might also like

Subscribe to our newsletter

PriceRadar

Product Information

Product Specifications

Reviews

You might also like