The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can...Read more