Blood in the machine the origins of the rebellion against big tech Brian Merchant

By:

Merchant, Brian

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Little, Brown and Company 2023Description: xxiii, 465 pages facsimiles 24 cmISBN:

9780316487740

Other title:

Origins of the rebellion against big tech

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Contents:

Power looms -- The great comet -- Metropolis of discontent -- Breaking frames, breaking bones -- More value than work or gold -- The modern Prometheus -- The owners of the new machine age.

Summary: "The true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today"--Dust jacket flap.Summary: "The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world--and is shaping our future." -- Page 2 of cover

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	French Institute of Pondicherry	IFP Social Science collection	ECONO 1698 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		SS21895

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-453)

Power looms -- The great comet -- Metropolis of discontent -- Breaking frames, breaking bones -- More value than work or gold -- The modern Prometheus -- The owners of the new machine age.

"The true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today"--Dust jacket flap.

"The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world--and is shaping our future." -- Page 2 of cover

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