《机械时代的人类境况》

English | October 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 1590517970 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 1.45 MB

This sweeping history of humanity’s relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.

Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother. And for the first time, artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster—disaster caused by our own activities. Scientists join imaginative writers in warning us of the fate of Icarus, whose wings melted because he flew too close to the sun.

This book tells the story of our fractured relationship with machines from humanity’s first tools down to the present and into the future. It raises the crucial question of why some parts of the world developed a “machine civilization” and not others, and traces the interactions between capitalism and technology, and between science and religion, in the making of the modern world.

Taking in the peaks of philosophy and triumphs of science, the foundation of economics and speculations of fiction, Robert Skidelsky embarks on a bold intellectual journey through the evolution of our understanding of technology and what this means for our lives and politics.

这本关于人类与机器关系的 sweeping 历史照亮了我们是如何走到今天的，以及人工智能、气候变化等之后会发生什么。 对技术能够解决我们问题的信心正在减弱。自动化曾承诺减轻劳作之苦，但重新激活了人们对失业的长期恐惧。旨在解放我们摆脱传统权威的信息技术如今把前所未有的监视和控制权力交到了一个纯粹世俗的大哥手中。而且首次，人工智能威胁到人为灾难——由我们的活动所导致的灾难。科学家与富有想象力的作家一起警告着伊卡洛斯的命运，他的双翼因为飞得太接近太阳而融化。 这本书讲述了人类早期工具时代直到现在并与未来的关系破裂的历史。它提出了一个关键问题：为什么有些地区发展出了“机器文明”，而其他地方没有？还追溯了资本主义和技术、科学与宗教在现代世界形成过程中之间的互动。 罗伯特·斯克德尔斯基在这场关于技术理解的进化及其对我们生活和政治意义的 bold 知识旅行中，将哲学的巅峰和科学的成功以及经济学的基础与小说的推测囊括其中。

---

Download from free file storage

 Download from rapidgator.net  Download from nitroflare.com

---

我要反馈

---

本站不对文件进行储存，仅提供文件链接，请自行下载，本站不对文件内容负责，请自行判断文件是否安全，如发现文件有侵权行为，请联系管理员删除。