Thomas Rid
Rid connects technical history to policy and conflict studies, giving readers a researched framework for interpreting claims about cyberwar and security.
Thomas Rid is a scholar and author who has written on cyber conflict, cybernetics, and information operations. His work joins historical research to analysis of the claims made about technology in warfare.
Cybernetics and cyber conflict
Rise of the Machines follows the intellectual and technological history of cybernetics, while Rid’s other work addresses cyberwar and information operations. Together, these books offer context for security history beyond individual incidents or tools.
Timeline
- 2013Publishes Cyber War Will Not Take Place.
- 2016Publishes Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History.
- 2026Maintains an author bibliography that includes books on cybernetics and information operations.
Thomas Rid
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 2013-Present
- Known for
- Rise of the Machines; Cyber War Will Not Take Place; History of cybernetics and cyber conflict
- Tags
- author, academic, cyberwar, cybernetics, books
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