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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/316581 Title: Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History Author: Thomas Rid Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs 1 min Language: English Release date: 2016-06-28 Publisher: HighBridge Company Genres: Science & Technology, Computers Publisher's Summary: As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. Thomas Rid delivers a portrait of our technology enraptured era. Springing from mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of myths about the future of machines. This vision radically transformed the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. Cybernetics triggered cults, the Whole Earth Catalog, and feminist manifestos, just as it fueled martial gizmos and the air force's foray into virtual space. As Rid shows, cyber