{"product_id":"rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial-state-hardcover","title":"Rise And Fall Of The Artificial State (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the\nYear 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e'Superb' Philip Pullman\u003cbr\u003e\n'Revelatory' George Saunders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future\nenvisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like\nthe very worst of the past…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWe live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly\nevolving technologies have transformed every aspect of our society, in\ntroubling and seemingly unstoppable ways. Political campaigns have been reduced\nto attention-mining algorithms, multinational corporations control public\ndiscourse, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to an\nend, replaced by the rule of artificial intelligence. Today, power is\nmaintained through mystification: machines, we are told, know what humans cannot.\nYet nothing about any of this was, or is, inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn this astounding account of how technology has corroded\ndemocracy around the world, prizewinning historian Jill Lepore traces the rise\nand fall of what she calls the ‘Artificial State’. Examining everything from\nrobot rights and Elon Musk’s origins to what data centres cost wildlife, Lepore\noffers a history – and a perspective – wholly missing from the debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHistory, Lepore demonstrates, is driven not by machines but\nby individuals, societies, cultures and ideas. The architects of the Artificial\nState had no theory of governance, nor did they have any interest in the rule\nof law, or any capacity for restraint. They drew their ideas not from science,\nbut from science fiction. Yet everything destructive that they have done can be\nundone. By illuminating the origins of the Artificial State, Lepore reveals how\nwe can escape it – helping us to imagine, and fight for, a different future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill Lepore\u003c\/b\u003e is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor\nof American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law\nSchool. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eShe is also a staff writer at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\nHer many books include the international bestseller\u003ci\u003e These Truths: A\nHistory of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45946071187663,"sku":"9780241836552","price":57.23,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_c4db2c7a-6899-4e52-b4bf-e57973c8d72b.jpg?v=1788161466","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial-state-hardcover","provider":"Popular Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}