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2025-02-02
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感謝豆瓣贈書。封麵巨大的反光圓形圖案極富張力,讀者可以從中窺得自己的模糊身影。這也契閤瞭本書的主題——未來的世界是否會更耀眼,同時更模糊。 作為標準工科生,一直對於科技發展、技術進步和生産力的提升抱有積極態度,饒是曆史和當下都齣現許多因科技發展而産生的悲劇,...
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...
評分某互聯網巨頭曾經說過這麼一句話:“中國人願意用隱私去交換便利性。” 這句話隻說齣瞭錶象的結果,卻完全忽視瞭中間省略掉的必要邏輯鏈環。如果每個中國人都能清楚地知道為什麼自己隻是下載一款普普通通的單機遊戲,卻被要求提供通訊錄和地理位置權限,恐怕大部分中國人都會對...
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
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。
評分新黑暗時代是我所讀過的關於互聯網的最令人不安和最有啓發性的書之一,也就是說,它是我讀過的關於當代生活的最令人不安和最有啓發性的書之一。 《紐約客》
評分對即將來臨黑暗時代的所有事物進行的一次精闢研究。具有說服力和必要性。
評分While new technologies of the digital age allow us to connect, collect and share information, they’re ushering us into a new dark age, where the world seems more complex and confusing than ever before. Big Data 有多可怕,我很無知。片名讓我直接想到Middle Dark Age.
評分計算機時代的喬治·奧威爾 ——科剋斯書評
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