The Quickest Revolution (Paperback)
An Insider’s Guide to Sweeping Technological Change, and Its Largest Threats
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9788869774515
Published: 18th April 2024
Casemate UK Academic
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“A unique perspective on this time of change” ~Joe Marks, former Vice President & Research Fellow of The Walt Disney Company
“Of impressing clarity. The most significant book I read in years” ~Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis, author of Wohpe.
Since their invention, computers have kept revolutionizing the world at a staggering pace. And yet, if on one side this ongoing revolution keeps providing an incessant stream of novel and previously unimaginable technologies, on the other, as with all revolutions, its profound effects threaten to upend much of the previous world order. Facing the many questions that this change is urgently raising will require to acquire a novel and interdisciplinary understanding of the powerful forces that govern this process. Sitting squarely at the crossroads of computer science, history, socioeconomics, ethics, and philosophy, and written by an insider who contributed foundational work to many of the latest and most pervasive technologies this book offers a much-needed reframing of the past, present and future of computing, that goes far beyond the typical chronological record of events and arms us with a uniquely broad and integrated analysis of their complex origins and their numerous side effects.