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How the Information Age destroys knowledgeIn the new dark age, we will know less about the world. Knowledge will be taken from us, knowledge will be hidden from us, knowledge will be unreachable and unreadable. But we can know this much: that uncertainty and contingency are not exceptions but the state of the world, with or without us. Learning to live with this awareness is the difficult but necessary task of the Twenty-First Century.We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension.In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
1	Chasm	p. 1
2	Computation	p. 17
3	Climate	p. 47
4	Calculation	p. 77
5	Complexity	p. 103
6	Cognition	p. 135
7	Complicity	p. 161
8	Conspiracy	p. 187
9	Concurrency	p. 215
10	Cloud	p. 241
Acknowledgements	p. 255
Notes	p. 257
Index	p. 281