New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle

Book Overview

How the Information Age destroys knowledge

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world.

In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178663547X
• ISBN13: 9781786635471
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.4"