Description
In an age of unprecedented connectivity, more information has not made the world easier to understand—it has often made it more opaque. This incisive work examines how algorithms, artificial intelligence, surveillance, financial systems, state secrecy, and the misinformation of post-truth politics shape contemporary life while concentrating power in the hands of institutions few can fully see or challenge. Drawing on the histories of art, technology, and information, it questions the belief that computation alone can solve humanity’s deepest problems and explores the social, political, and environmental consequences of that faith. Both a warning and a call for renewed critical attention, the book reveals the hidden structures behind our digital future and asks what it means to think clearly within them.
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paperback
Verso Books
Published Jul 17, 2018
305 pages
ISBN: 9781786635501
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First Published
2018
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle.