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World without mind : why Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple threaten our future / Franklin Foer.

By: Foer, Franklin [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Vintage, 2018Description: xiii, 257 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784707347 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Amazon.com (Firm) | Facebook (Firm) | Apple Computer, Inc | Google (Firm) | Technology -- Social aspects | Society | SocietyDDC classification: 303.4'83 Summary: Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science - from the Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand and the hippie origins of today's Silicon Valley - Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology.

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science - from the Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand and the hippie origins of today's Silicon Valley - Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology.

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