{"product_id":"the-maniac-1","title":"The MANIAC","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AIJohnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of mathematics. But when his faith in this all-encompassing system crumbled, he began to put his prodigious intellect to use for those in power.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e As he designed unfathomable computer systems and aided the development of the atomic bomb, his work pushed increasingly into areas that were beyond human comprehension and control - and that threatened human destruction.In The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut braids fact with fiction in a scintillating journey to the very fringes of rational thought, right to the point where it tips over into chaos. Stretching back to early twentieth-century conflict over contradictions in physics and up to advances in artificial intelligence that outpace the human, this is a mind-bending story of the mad dreams of reason.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system,'system-ui','San Francisco','Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system,'system-ui','San Francisco','Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished: UK, 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Penguin Pr\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguages: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 354\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 13: 9780593654477\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 10: 0593654471\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Labatut","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45017620283658,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780593654477.jpg?v=1703418654","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-maniac-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}