Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age

by Robert Skidelsky

This sweeping history of humanity's relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.

Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590517970
• ISBN13: 9781590517970
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.