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The King and the Swarm

Mary Harrington

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Are we destined to merge with the machines we’ve created? What if the Singularity – the moment of merger – already happened? How would we know?

The King and the Swarm argues that we already have. We did so via an always-on and increasingly omnipresent mesh of digital sensing points that spans the world, and of which you almost certainly have one in your pocket. The global transformation this has wrought reaches far beyond economics, reshaping politics, culture, sex, family, and even consciousness itself.

Hardback

ISBN: 9781800756434

Published: March 11, 2027

Ebook

ISBN: 9781800756441

Published: March 11, 2027

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Category:
Non-fiction

Reviews for The King and the Swarm

Praise for Mary Harrington:

‘Harrington is so annoyingly brilliant; she makes you rethink everything’ – The Telegraph

‘Harrington has an original mind, a gift for polemic’ – New Statesman

Author

Mary Harrington

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Mary Harrington is a writer whose work has appeared in the Times, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Daily Mail, and First Things, among others. She is a Contributing Editor at UnHerd. She lives in Bedfordshire, UK.