100% Utilization
Computation and Labor After Moore's Law
$157.01
- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.
Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growth in computing power and the rapid development of digital technology. This dynamic has enabled informational procedures to supplant an ever-increasing range of human and mechanical activity. However, indications that the semiconductor industry is approaching the physical limits of in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051361 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262051362 |
| Author: | Andrew Lison |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Software Studies |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“100% Utilization urges us to think beyond the limits of the convergence of the microelectronic and the macroeconomic: not by concentrating power but in politically and technically experimental ways. 100% essential.”
—Matthew Fuller, coauthor of Evil Media
“100% Utilization is a brilliant book that vividly paints the present and future of the material limits of computation and the end of Moore’s law. Technical expertise, cultural analysis, media theory, and materialist analysis combine here in an effective and forward-looking analysis of our technological times. This book is a must-read.”
—Marc Steinberg, author of Anime’s Media Fix and The Platform Economy
“Lison’s is a trenchant analysis of Moore’s law in decline, and its implications. It’s also something of a unicorn: clear and rigorous on technology, Marxist political economy, and cultural analysis alike. I learned a lot.”
—David C. Brock, Robert and Bette Finnigan Fellow, Computer History Museum
Andrew Lison
Andrew Lison is Associate Professor of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research connects digital mediation with developments in political economy, critical theory, and popular culture.
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