Clear bright future : a radical defence of the human being
Mason, Paul, 1960-2020
Books, Manuscripts
How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we soon be supplanted by algorithms and A.I. anyway? In 'Clear Bright Future', Paul Mason calls for a radical, impassioned defence of the human being, our universal rights and freedoms and our power to change the world around us. Ranging from economics to Big Data, from neuroscience to the culture wars, he draws from his on-the-ground reporting from mass protests in Istanbul to riots in Washington, as well as his own childhood in an English mining community, to show how the notion of humanity has become eroded as never before.
Mason, Paul, 1960-, author
UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
xiii, 353 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2019."An Allen Lane book"--Back cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.
9780141986722 (pbk. :)
English
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