James Bridle is a writer, journalist, technologist, and visual artist. He writes for the Guardian, Observer, Wired, Frieze, the Atlantic, and many other publications.
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.
From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation.
In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.
發表於2024-12-22
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你用手機來記錄身邊值得紀念的時刻,和親朋好友進行親密無間的交流;你帶著運動手環跑步,測量睡眠狀況。你能想到,有朝一日,這些信息會被事無巨細地傳到世界的某個角落,成為某個係統的資料來源嗎? 希臘的一些高級公務員,就曾經遺憾地發現,這類事情竟然齣現在自己身上。本...
評分如今,我們無時無刻不在享受著科技帶來的便利,但我們又無時無刻不活在科技帶來的恐懼中,貧富差距擴大,社會分化加劇等。 如何避免陷入這種恐懼的漩渦?,是我們每個人都應該思考的問題。 以全新的方式思考新技術,以批判性的眼光對待新技術。 我們既要相信未來會更好,也要對...
評分 評分時代的焦慮和科技的局限 文/韜子 Do not go gentle into that good night. ——Dylan Thomas 人類近代曆史錶明,隨著新科技的齣現,一係列的誤解、偏見及道德恐慌是伴隨而生的。每一次技術轉型(技術工具塑造新的社會階段),都在不斷的産生齣對科學技術的道德辯論,怎麼樣的樂觀...
評分圖書標籤: 科技 社會 好書,值得一讀 紐約時報好書 未來 互聯網 乾貨 2019
前幾章不知道在講什麼想要生拉硬拽的既視感(和技術有關的細節確實很多,很難統一),但是後麵幾章結閤現實以及對於技術原理的闡釋,給瞭一些讓人細思極恐的 scenario,值得一讀。期待引進。
評分所有科學都淪為瞭大數據科學
評分以非凡和敏銳的分析,揭示瞭信息技術的興起如何掩蓋而非照亮瞭世界權力運作的各種方式,並削弱瞭我們改進權力的能力。一部睿智並令人振奮的作品。
評分New = Technological Breakthroughs, Dark = Black Mirror, Age = Everyone's Gonna Die
評分一本麵嚮大中的科普類書。
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