We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed every aspect of our society, in troubling and seemingly unstoppable ways. Political campaigns have been reduced to attention-mining algorithms, multinational corporations control public discourse, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to an end, replaced by the rule of artificial intelligence. Today, power is maintained through mystification: machines, we are told, know what humans cannot. Yet nothing about any of this was, or is, inevitable. In this account of how technology has corroded democracy around the world, prizewinning historian Jill Lepore traces the rise and fall of what she calls the ‘Artificial State’.
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Politics / Current AffairsAuthor Jill Lepore Published by Allen Lane ISBN 9780241836552 EAN 9780241836552 Bic Code DNL|JBFV5|JPHV|UYQ|GPH Cover Hardback
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