Rise of the Machines – A Cybernetic History - Hardcover

Rid, Thomas

 
9780393286007: Rise of the Machines – A Cybernetic History

Synopsis

Rise of the MachinesWhole Earth CatalogAs Rid shows, cybernetics proved a powerful tool for two competing factions—those who sought to make a better world and those who sought to control the one at hand. In the Bay Area, techno-libertarians embraced networked machines as the portal to a new electronic frontier: a peaceful, open space of freedom. In Washington, DC, cyberspace provided the perfect theater for dominance and war. Meanwhile the future arrived secretly in 1996, with Moonlight Maze, dawn of a new age of digital state-on-state espionage. That “first cyberwar,” as Rid reveals in a blow-by-blow account, went on for years—and indeed has never stopped. In our long-promised cybernetic future, the line between utopia and dystopia continues to be disturbingly thin.Rise of the Machines

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About the Author

Thomas Rid is a professor in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and the author of Cyber War Will Not Take Place and War and Media Operations. He lives in London.

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ISBN 10:  0393354954 ISBN 13:  9780393354959
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018
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