Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

by Thomas Rid
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

by Thomas Rid

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Overview

"Dazzling.” —Financial Times

As lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas.

Springing from the 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. Cybernetics triggered blissful cults and military gizmos, the Whole Earth Catalog and the air force’s foray into virtual space, as well as crypto-anarchists fighting for internet freedom.

In Rise of the Machines, Thomas Rid draws on unpublished sources—including interviews with hippies, anarchists, sleuths, and spies—to offer an unparalleled perspective into our anxious embrace of technology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393286014
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 06/28/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 432
File size: 31 MB
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About the Author

Thomas Rid is a professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and the author of Cyber War Will Not Take Place and War and Media Operations. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Rise of the Machines 1

1 Control and Communication at War 8

2 Cybernetics 43

3 Automation 73

4 Organisms 113

5 Culture 156

6 Space 195

7 Anarchy 246

8 War 294

9 Fall of the Machines 340

Acknowledgments 353

Notes 355

Illustration Credits 387

Index 391

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