Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

by Thomas Rid

Book Overview

As lives offline and online merge even more, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth century's pivotal ideas, Thomas Rid delivers a thought-provoking portrait of our technology-enraptured era.

Springing from the febrile mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393286002
• ISBN13: 9780393286007
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"