Rise of the Machines: An Interview with Dr. Thomas Rid
Oct 25, 2016•50 min•Ep. 231
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Episode description
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Thomas Rid, professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, and the author of Rise of the Machines. The book tells the sweeping story of how cybernetics, a late-1940s theory of machines, came to incite anarchy and war half a century later.
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