num_pages: 200
description: Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science industry society. They upset the concepts of work property government private life even humanity. Going easily from one extreme to the other we rejoice that they make life easier for us but fear that they will enslave us. To get beyond this vision of good vs evil this book takes a new look at our time the age of algorithms. Creations of the human spirit algorithms are what we made them. And they will be what we want them to be: it's up to us to choose the world we want to live in.
language: English
title: The Age of Algorithms
publisher: Cambridge University Press