Book description
"One day the day will come when the day will not come." Bleak, but passionately political in its analysis of the social destruction wrought by modern technologies of communication and surveillance, Open Sky is Paul Virilio's most far-reaching and radical book. Deepening and extending his earlier work, he explores the…
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1 author picked Open Sky as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Virilio was probably the first philosopher to succinctly and concretely conceptualise the future, including what technology and AI do to our life.
The book is a straightforward lament for the disturbing loss of intimacy, democracy, and distance that our tech societies have brought about. The absence of space, personal and social, is probably one of the most dangerous side-effects of AI and of the most intrusive episode of technological development in human history.
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