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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

James Bridle
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How the Information Age destroys knowledgeWe live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anon...ymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather, it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension.In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.
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Marcel Uhrin

Máme antropocén. Čo bude po ňom alebo znovu o dvoch knihách naraz

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Temný novovek je termín, ktorý opisuje obdobie s nesmiernym rozvojom informačných technológií. Antropocén je súčasťou temného novoveku, kde nadbytok informácií vedie k štiepeniu spoločnosti a vzniku konšpiračných teórií. Kniha Jamesa Bridlea, s názvom New Dark Age, sa sústreďuje na negatívne stránky technológií, vývoju siete, internetu a informácií. Autor uvádza príklady, ako sa technológie vymykajú kontrole a vykazujú zlyhania v automaticky generovaných produktoch a výpočtoch. Problematizuje tiež dôsledky klimatickej zmeny na technologický základ spoločnosti a krízu vedy, keď vedci len spracujú obrovské množstvá dát a vytvoria pravdu.

How the Information Age destroys knowledge

We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather, it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension.

In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy.

Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.