Blood in the machine
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The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs-and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods.
The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines-on punishment of death-and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.
Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it?
The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world-and is shaping our future.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 oktober 2023
Aantal pagina's: 496
Illustraties: Met illustraties
Hoofdauteur: Brian Merchant
Hoofduitgeverij: Little, Brown & Company
Product breedte: 160 mm
Product hoogte: 46 mm
Product lengte: 236 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 162 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 46 mm
Verpakking lengte: 225 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 740 g
EAN: 9780316487740