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

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

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year

The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, a…

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