<p><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Beautifully written...</strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">a fascinating account of our centuries-old desire to build machines with higher intelligence and - now that we have done - our agony about what to do with them.' - Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'</span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">A must-read</strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">&nbsp;for anyone fascinated by the past, present, and future of AI' - ChatGPT</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'</span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">100% zesty</strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. </span>It is not only a powerful telling of humanity's ongoing relationship with technology and a reflection on the current questions surrounding AI, but it is also <strong>the most compelling radical theological text I have read</strong>.' - Tripp Fuller</p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">In the year 1600, a monk is burned at the stake for claiming to have built a device that will allow him to know all things.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">350 years later, having witnessed 'Trinity' - the first test of the atomic bomb - America's leading scientist outlines a memory machine that will help end war on earth.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">25 years in the making, an ex-soldier finally unveils this 'machine for augmenting human intellect', dazzling as he stands 'Zeus-like, dealing lightning with both hands'.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">In this profound and urgent new book, leading thinker on technology Kester Brewin shows how&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">AI is both stunningly new and rooted in the most ancient human desires</strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. Hailed by the UK government's own lead on AI as 'god-like', as we finally welcome this stunning technology amongst us - with Frankenstein and Faustus, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to the underbelly of Silicon Valley - Brewin skillfully leads us through the myths, machines and monsters that have influenced the development of our greatest and most longed-for invention, and how we can learn to live alongside it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Praise for MIDDLE CLASS:</strong></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Hugely accomplished' - Lucy Morris, Curtis Brown</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'An exceptionally talented writer' - Emma Finn, Conville and Walsh</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Praise for GETTING HIGH:</strong></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Fascinating...revelatory' - Andrew Smith, author of MOONDUST and TOTALLY WIRED.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Beautiful' - Professor Simon Critchley, author of BOWIE and INFINITELY DEMANDING</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Honest, absorbing, clear-eyed and compelling' - Erik Davis, author of TECHGNOSIS and NOMAD CODES</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Praise for MUTINY:</strong></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Startlingly original, subtle and substantive, written in a prose that is as lyrical as it is lucid' - Third Way Magazine</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Brilliantly riffs and mashes across literary genres' - Simon Nash</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'A stimulating, entertaining, and ultimately profound meditation on what pirates can teach us about living in the real world' - Dr Gladys Ganiel</span></p>