Machines and numbers define our lives but we pretend that we are in control. Machines are basically devices powered artificially that contain rules and depend on numbers to operate. Machines have no imagination. But our relationship with machines is of long standing. Despite the fact that engineering only became a university subject late in the 19th C machines have been designed and made by people, especially in northern Europe, for hundreds of years. Our historical event horizon is the 19th C however so we never interrogate what it means to be truly human, because humans invent and humans make and humans as Yoav Hariri says use language in order to organise so that these activities can be carried out successfully. Our survival depends on it, but we are no longer in control. The machines are taking over.
Machines and numbers define our lives but we pretend that we are in control. Machines are basically devices powered artificially that contain rules and depend on numbers to operate. Machines have no imagination. But our relationship with machines is of long standing. Despite the fact that engineering only became a university subject late in the 19th C machines have been designed and made by people, especially in northern Europe, for hundreds of years. Our historical event horizon is the 19th C however so we never interrogate what it means to be truly human, because humans invent and humans make and humans as Yoav Hariri says use language in order to organise so that these activities can be carried out successfully. Our survival depends on it, but we are no longer in control. The machines are taking over.
ASIN : B0FSZYWX5F
Publisher : Independently published
Publication date : 27 September 2025
Language : English
Print length : 86 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8267441810
Item weight : 163 g
Dimensions : 13.97 x 0.51 x 21.59 cm
