TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bridle,James
TI  - New dark age: technology and the end of the future 
SN  - 9781786635495 (e-book)
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Big data
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Social change
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Sociology & anthropology
KW  - thema
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - Technology: general issues
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Urban & municipal planning
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781786635471; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - This polemic on how technology makes us understand the world less from one of }WIRED{ magazine's 100 most influential people in Europe looks at the hollowing out of empathy amongst other issues that accompany the purported digital sublime; "New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about contemporary life." - New YorkerAs the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we're living in a new Dark Age. From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation. In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime
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