The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verkaufsrang
1214
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
25.08.2026
Verlag
Penguin Books LtdSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
23,9/16,4/3,7 cm
Gewicht
538 g
Farbe
Lichtgrau / Schwarz
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-241-83655-2
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2026
'Superb' Philip Pullman
'Revelatory' George Saunders
It presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future envisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like the very worst of the past...
We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed every aspect of our society, in troubling and seemingly unstoppable ways. Political campaigns have been reduced to attention-mining algorithms, multinational corporations control public discourse, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to an end, replaced by the rule of artificial intelligence. Today, power is maintained through mystification: machines, we are told, know what humans cannot. Yet nothing about any of this was, or is, inevitable.
In this astounding account of how technology has corroded democracy around the world, prizewinning historian Jill Lepore traces the rise and fall of what she calls the 'Artificial State'. Examining everything from robot rights and Elon Musk's origins to what data centres cost wildlife, Lepore offers a history - and a perspective - wholly missing from the debate.
History, Lepore demonstrates, is driven not by machines but by individuals, societies, cultures and ideas. The architects of the Artificial State had no theory of governance, nor did they have any interest in the rule of law, or any capacity for restraint. They drew their ideas not from science, but from science fiction. Yet everything destructive that they have done can be undone. By illuminating the origins of the Artificial State, Lepore reveals how we can escape it - helping us to imagine, and fight for, a different future.
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