From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI 'Monstrously good... Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller' Mark Haddon In a scintillating mix of fact and fiction, The MANIAC tells of the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI. At its core is John von Neumann, a titan of science who revolutionised fields from game theory to computer systems and helped develop the atomic bomb. As illness unmoored his mind, his work pushed further into areas beyond human comprehension and control. With dazzling mastery, Benjamin Labatut weaves von Neumann's story together with the crises in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century and humanity's showdown with artificial intelligence a hundred years later. Innovative and disquieting, this book plunges us into the most profound questions of humanity, where reason teeters on the brink of chaos.
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Book Details
Title
The MANIAC
Imprint
Pushkin Press
Product Form
Paperback
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Genre
Fiction
ISBN13
9781782279822
Book Category
Higher Education and Professional Books
BISAC Subject Heading
FIC019000
Book Subcategory
Computing and Information Technology Books
Language
English
Dimensions
Height
198 mm
Length
129 mm
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