The Maniac (Paperback)From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI 'Monstrously good Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller' Mark Haddon In a scintillating mix of fact and fiction,The MANIAC tells of the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI. At its core is John von Neumann, a

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