{"product_id":"weak-technologies","title":"Weak Technologies","description":"\u003ci\u003eWeak Technologies\u003c\/i\u003e challenges one of the great myths of our time: that technology is powerful. We are constantly told that tools, technologies and especially Artificial Intelligence expand our reach, overcome our limits and make us stronger. But this book proposes the opposite. Technologies are valuable not because they succeed but because they \u003ci\u003efail\u003c\/i\u003e – because they glitch, deviate, surprise, and refuse to obey faithfully the intentions of their designers and users.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fascination with \"powerful\" technology rests on a fantasy of mastery: that human weaknesses can be overcome by machines. Yet every technology, from a screwdriver to a neural network, reveals itself to be interesting only when it does something unexpected: weakness, such as inconsistency, malfunction and improvisation, is where invention emerges. Technologies are not solutions to problems: they \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e problems, calling for new acts of imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book invites us to abandon the dream of seamless efficiency and instead to embrace experimentation and play. To use technology well is not to control it but to explore what else it can do. \u003ci\u003eWeak Technologies\u003c\/i\u003e proposes nothing less than an artistic education in technological life, a way of creating with machines, not commanding them. It is a manifesto for an experimental, curious, and genuinely inventive technological culture.","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57377388265816,"sku":"9781509572878","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/weak-technologies","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}