The Code Economy, Philip E. Auerswald
The Code Economy, Philip E. Auerswald
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The Code Economy
A Forty-Thousand Year History

Author: Philip E. Auerswald

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/22/2017

Synopsis

Code is the "how" of human productive activity. The creation, implementation, and refinement of code have been the infrastructure of human progress from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from the production of Stone Age axes, to the invention of chocolate chip cookies, to the experience of Burning Man, Philip Auerswald argues that the key driver of human history is the advance of code. At each major stage in the advance of code over the span of centuries, shifts in the structure of society have challenged we human beings to reinvent not only how we work, but who we are. We are at one of those stages now. The Code Economy offers an indispensable guide to the future, based on a narrative stretching forty-thousand years into the past.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shai on February 19, 2019

The Code Economy is a book about the economic history of code, conceived broadly. To Phillip Auerswald, code is an generic term for any process, series of instructions, or algorithm - as well as any set of regulations, rules, or other heuristics by which behavior (of machines or people) should be go......more

Goodreads review by Carl on June 15, 2017

Probably the first thing I noticed about this book, from the cover, was that the author is affiliated with George Mason University & that sent up a red flag for me. George Mason is known as a repository of dark money & dark ideas a la the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, & Koc......more

Goodreads review by Noah on January 15, 2018

The core idea resonated with me, but ultimately, the examples felt thin. Although, not explicitly about economy as code, I feel Gleick's book "Information" (which is quoted by Auerswald) is more rich with narrative examples of how code as symbolic logic is a powerful tool to both understand our worl......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on August 17, 2018

This interdisciplinary book is one of my favourites! Phenomenal historical narratives.......more

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