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Rise of the machines

Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition

Rise of the machines: the lost history of cybernetics

By Rid, Thomas

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What does "cyber" even mean? And where does the idea come from? We live in an age increasingly defined by technology. But as we check our emails, board a plane, or read about the latest Russian hack, we rarely ask how the ideas that shaped our modern world originated. Thomas Rid's revelatory history of cybernetics pulls together disparate threads in the history of technology: from the invention of radar and pilotless flying bombs in World War Two, to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cry...Show more

Cybernetics and systems theory

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ISBN

9781911344100

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2017

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Rise of the machines

Format

Paperback

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