Devin Kennedy on Computing and Capitalism

So often, when we hear about computing or computers, we think about disruption—some technological advancement that signals a radical break with all that came before.

But what if that's wrong, or at the very least, incomplete? Today's guest, Devin Kennedy, argues that the twentieth-century history of computing is marked just as much by continuity as change—even between eras, like Fordism and post-Fordism, that we usually separate with a bright line.

I promise you: it's the only book you'll read this year that'll take you all the way from Taylorism up to the 2010 Wall Street flash crash.

Listen on to learn more.