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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

By Thomas Rid
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Unabridged — 12 hours, 59 minutes
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$30.99
By Thomas Rid
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Unabridged — 12 hours, 59 minutes
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As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here.Rise of the Machinesreclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. Thomas Rid delivers a portrait of our technology enraptured era.

Springing from mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of myths about the future of machines. This vision radically transformed the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. Cybernetics tr...