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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
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An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuriesold utopian dreams behind itand explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern worlduncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuriesold dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internets continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attentiondestroying nature of networked technology.Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the internet has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machinedriven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internets organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature.Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clearsighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.
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