The Machine Age
An Idea, a History, a Warning
$40.27
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
19 February 2024
Summary
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity’s relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next.
We live in a world made by machines; their development set its beat. This book tells the story of our relationship with machines from humanity’s first tools down to the present and into the future. It charts the causes and courses of technological progress across epochs, revealing its impedances and accelerants, its interactions with capital and ascent to the f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241244616 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241244617 |
| Author: | Robert Skidelsky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 19 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 611g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 162mm x 240mm |
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Praise for Robert Skidelsky – -
A truly innovative and radical perspective … thought-stirring and extremely refreshing – John Gray * Guardian *
Arresting insights, written – despite its complex and heavyweight subject matter – with a captivating lightness of touch – Dominic Lawson * The Sunday Times *
Crisp and pungent … deeply provocative and intellectually suggestive – Rowan Williams * Prospect *
Skidelsky is a major figure in the revival of Keynesian thought – Martin Wolf * Financial Times *
Robert Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.
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