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Clear Bright Future - A Radical Defence of the Human Being (Paperback)
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Clear Bright Future - A Radical Defence of the Human Being (Paperback)
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List price R337
Loot Price R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
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'Thrilling, brilliant, radical ... an admirable defence of humans
against machines' Guardian A passionate defence of humanity and a
work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author
of Postcapitalism How do we preserve what makes us human in an age
of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces?
A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we soon
be supplanted by algorithms and A.I. anyway? In Clear Bright
Future, Paul Mason calls for a radical, impassioned defence of the
human being, our universal rights and freedoms and our power to
change the world around us. Ranging from economics to Big Data,
from neuroscience to the culture wars, he draws from his
on-the-ground reporting from mass protests in Istanbul to riots in
Washington, as well as his own childhood in an English mining
community, to show how the notion of humanity has become eroded as
never before. In this book Paul Mason argues that we are still
capable - through language, innovation and co-operation - of
shaping our future. He offers a vision of humans as more than
puppets, customers or cogs in a machine. This work of radical
optimism asks: Do you want to be controlled? Or do you want
something better?
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