New dark age : technology and the end of the future / James Bridle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bridle, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Big data--Social aspects.

Big data.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Social change.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.

Summary:

"We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension. In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime." --Publisher description.

Contents:

Chasm

Computation

Climate

Calculation

Complexity

Cognition

Complicity

Conspiracy

Concurrency

Cloud.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bridle, James, author. New dark age

ISBN:

9781786635471

178663547X

OCLC:

1001444157