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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rid, Thomas, 1975- author.     Subjects     Technology -- Social aspects.     Automation -- Social aspects.     Cybernetics -- History.     Information warfare -- History.     Machinery -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rid, Thomas, 1975- author.       by title:      Rise of the machines...         MARC Display

Rise of the machines : a cybernetic history / Thomas Rid. by Rid, Thomas, 1975- author. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2016. Subjects Technology -- Social aspects.   Automation -- Social aspects.   Cybernetics -- History.   Information warfare -- History.   Machinery -- History. ISBN:  9780393286007 (hardcover) : 0393286002 (hardcover) Description:  xvi, 414 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Control and communication at war -- Cybernetics -- Automation -- Organisms -- Culture -- Space -- Anarchy -- War -- Fall of the machines. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Springing from the febrile 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. This vision would radically transform the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. From the Cold War's monumental SAGE bomber defense system to enhanced humans, Wiener's scheme turned computers from machines of assured destruction into engines of brilliant utopias. Cybernetics triggered blissful cults, the Whole Earth Catalog, and feminist manifestos, just as it fueled martial gizmos and the air force's foray into virtual space. As 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" ... 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."--Jacket flap.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 303.48309 Ri Checked out 05/30/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48309 Ri Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48309 Ri Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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