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Rise of the Machines
- A Cybernetic History
- De: Thomas Rid
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims 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.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Machines? Cybernetics? 80% of the book had nothing to do with it
- De Amazon Customer 47 en 09-25-16
- Rise of the Machines
- A Cybernetic History
- De: Thomas Rid
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Machines? Cybernetics? 80% of the book had nothing to do with it
Revisado: 09-25-16
"Rise of the Internet: A cultural history" would have been more appropriate for a title. The first few chapters on the anti aircraft system used in the Second World War was enlightening and got me excited about the rest of the book. Sadly, instead of talking about industrial automation, Cold War technology and drone strikes, all talks about the "machines" stopped.
The rest of the book was a short history of counterculture, subversion, libertarianism, LSD, encryption, digital money, and hacking. It was a big departure from cybernetics, which implies the interaction between software and HARDWARE (i.e. The MACHINES). There was an interesting bit about Russians hacking the US in the late 90s but the author didn't take it past 2001, and it was about stealing data, rather than about controlling systems and machines. He could have talked about Stuxnet but he didn't.
A pretty disappointing book which started out strong but immediately just turned into another copy and paste job. 5 stars for the WWII info. The rest of the material in the middle can be found on Wikipedia. The book clearly suffers from his limited range of knowledge. It's as if he wrote this book in his 15th year of retirement.
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