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The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning

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內容簡介 對機器的反思與人類關係的深刻歷史——揭示我們如何走到今天以及未來的可能方向我們對技術解決問題的信仰正在減弱。自動化曾承諾能減輕勞動負擔，但卻重新激活了人們對工作被取代的長期恐懼。信息技術原本旨在將我們從傳統權威中解放出來，卻讓純粹世俗化的「老大哥」掌握了前所未有的監控和控制能力。而人工智慧更首次帶來了人類活動引發災難的威脅。科學家與想像力豐富的作家一同警告我們，或許我們將重蹈伊卡洛斯的命運——因為飛得太靠近太陽，翅膀熔化而墜落。本書講述了人類從最初的工具到當下以及未來，與機器之間破裂關係的故事。它提出了一個至關重要的問題：為什麼世界的某些地區發展出了「機器文明」，而其他地區卻沒有？作者探討了資本主義與技術之間、科學與宗教之間的互動，這些交織促成了現代世界的形成。羅伯特·斯基德爾斯基（Robert Skidelsky）帶領讀者踏上了一場大膽的智識之旅，涵蓋哲學的巔峰、科學的輝煌成就、經濟學的基礎理論以及小說中的推測，深入探索我們對技術的理解如何演變，以及這對我們的生活和政治意味著什麼。他寫道：「除非我們將技術視為一套理念系統，而非一種必然性，否則我們將無法選擇最符合我們需求與目的的技術。」A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother. And for the first time, artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster – disaster caused by our own activities. Scientists join imaginative writers in warning us of the fate of Icarus, whose wings melted because he flew too close to the sun.This book tells the story of our fractured relationship with machines from humanity’s first tools down to the present and into the future. It raises the crucial question of why some parts of the world developed a ‘machine civilisation’ and not others, and traces the interactions between capitalism and technology, and between science and religion, in the making of the modern world.Taking in the peaks of philosophy and triumphs of science, the foundation of economics and speculations of fiction, Robert Skidelsky embarks on a bold intellectual journey through the evolution of our understanding of technology and what this means for our lives and politics. ‘Unless we understand technology as a system of ideas rather than as a necessity,’ he writes, ‘we will be powerless to choose which technology is best suited to our needs and purposes.’

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各界推薦 書評對羅伯特·斯基德爾斯基的讚譽「真正創新的激進視角……令人深思且極具新意。」—— 約翰·格雷（John Gray），《衛報》（Guardian）「引人注目的洞見，儘管涉及複雜且重量級的主題，但寫作風格輕巧而迷人。」—— 多米尼克·勞森（Dominic Lawson），《星期日泰晤士報》（The Sunday Times）「簡潔有力……深具挑釁性並且極富智識啟發性。」—— 羅恩·威廉姆斯（Rowan Williams），《展望》（Prospect）「斯基德爾斯基是凱恩斯主義思想復興的重要人物。」—— 馬丁·沃爾夫（Martin Wolf），《金融時報》（Financial Times）ReviewPraise for Robert Skidelsky―-A truly innovative and radical perspective … thought-stirring and extremely refreshing―John Gray, GuardianArresting insights, written – despite its complex and heavyweight subject matter – with a captivating lightness of touch―Dominic Lawson, The Sunday TimesCrisp and pungent … deeply provocative and intellectually suggestive―Rowan Williams, ProspectSkidelsky is a major figure in the revival of Keynesian thought―Martin Wolf, Financial Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 羅伯特．斯基德爾斯基是華威大學（University of Warwick）政治經濟學名譽教授。他的三卷本約翰．梅納德．凱恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）傳記（1983 年、1992 年、2000 年）榮獲多項殊榮，包括萊昂內爾．蓋爾伯國際關係獎（Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations）和外交關係協會國際關係獎（Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations）。1991 年，他被授予終身貴族爵位，1994 年當選為英國學術院院士（Fellow of the British Academy）。斯基德爾斯基是凱恩斯經濟學的復興推動者，其學術研究在政治經濟學、歷史與國際關係領域具有深遠影響。Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.

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