Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

Rid, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0393286002 / ISBN 13: 9780393286007

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0393286002I5N10

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Rise of the MachinesWhole Earth CatalogAs 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,” as Rid reveals in a blow-by-blow account, 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.Rise of the Machines

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Titolo: Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Fair
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket