TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bridle,James
TI  - New dark age: technology, knowledge and the end of the future 
SN  - 9781786635488 (pbk.)
AV  - T14.5 .B745 2018
U1  - 303.483 BRI-J 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - NY
PB  - Verso
KW  - Technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Big data
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Social change
N1  - As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world.

In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we’re living in a new Dark Age; Includes bibliographical references and index; Chasm -- Computation -- Climate -- Calculation -- Complexity -- Cognition -- Complicity -- Conspiracy -- Concurrency -- Cloud
ER  -