<b>A sweeping history of our deep entanglement with technology.</b><br><p>As lives offline and online merge even more, it’s easy to forget how we got here. <i>Rise of the Machines</i> reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas, Thomas Rid delivers a thought-provoking portrait of our technology-enraptured era.</p> <p>Springing from the febrile mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid t...