Tom Chatfield Wise Animals : How Technology Has Made Us What We Are Paperback Book

A Science Book of the Year in The TelegraphTimely and wideranging . . . ambitious in its scope &ndash New ScientistOne of the best books on technology and culture I have read &ndash Matthew DAncona, The New EuropeanPowerful, profound and completely engrossing &ndash Michael Bhaskar, coauthor of The Coming WaveIn Wise Animals, tech philosopher Tom Chatfield excavates human history to uncover our changing relationship with technology, from the personalized hand axes of our Paleolithic ancestors to the artificial superintelligences of the future. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of cuttingedge research and historical sources, Chatfield encourages us to rethink everything we thought we knew about technology, and shows how we might deflect the path of technological development towards the longterm interests not only of humanity, but of all life on Earth. Tom Chatfield is one of the smartest and most original tech thinkers writing today. Both thoughtprovoking and startlingly original, Wise Animals is his magnum opus &ndash Roman Krznaric, author of The Good Ancestor | Tom Chatfield Wise Animals : How Technology Has Made Us What We Are Paperback Book