Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Brian Merchant

465 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction business history technology informative medium-paced
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The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work—and how it explains the power, t...

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