Name: The Internet is not What you Think it is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
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Author: Justin E. H. Smith
ISBN: 9780691212326

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The Internet is not What you Think it is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

Type

Physical Book

Author

Justin E. H. Smith

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.1 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780691212326

Synopsis "The Internet is not What you Think it is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning "

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died today Many 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 world--uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet's 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 attention-destroying 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 machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet's 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 clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.

Justin E. H. Smith

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Justin E. H. Smith (Reno, United States, 1972) holds a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University. From 2003 to 2013, he served as a faculty member at Concordia University in Montreal, and he is currently a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Université de Paris. He is also a member of the sphere research laboratory at the same university. In 2019 and 2020, he participated in the international fellowship program of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and since 2020 he has been writing critical essays and philosophy in his digital newsletter Justin E. H. Smith’s Hinternet.
He has written numerous articles in specialized journals and frequently contributes to publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Art in America, among others. He has compiled, among others, the volumes The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (2006) and Embodiment. A History (2017). Additionally, he is the author of the books Divine Machines. Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011); Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference. Race in Early Modern Philosophy (2015), and The Philosopher. A History in Six Types (2016).

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