Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/17401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood in the Machine Author: Brian Merchant Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: mp3 Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins Release date: 09-26-23 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 68 ratings Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.