The Machine Age by Robert Skidelsky
The Machine Age by Robert Skidelsky
SKU: 9780141982519 • Barcode: 9780141982519

The Machine Age

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Social forecasting, future studies
  • Genre / subject: Sociology: work and labour
  • Author: Robert Skidelsky
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Machine Age by Robert Skidelsky is a non-fiction book for adult readers.

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 first principle of the modern era. Tracing the promise of machines to liberate us from work and want and the accompanies threat of redundancy and subjection from ancient times to our own, Robert Skidelsky demonstrates how our creations not only reflect our ideas and ideals but also remake them.

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