POST-TRUTH The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series Auctions, Timothy P. Hubbard and Harry J. Paarsch Cloud Computing, Nayan Ruparelia Computing: A Concise History, Paul E. Ceruzzi The Conscious Mind, Zoltan L. Torey Crowdsourcing, Daren C. Brabham Free Will, Mark Balaguer The Future, Nick Montfort Information and Society, Michael Buckland Information and the Modern Corporation, James W. Cortada Intellectual Property Strategy, John Palfrey The Internet of Things, Samuel Greengard Machine Learning: The New AI, Ethem Alpaydin Machine Translation, Thierry Poibeau Memes in Digital Culture, Limor Shifman Metadata, Jeffrey Pomerantz The Mind–Body Problem, Jonathan Westphal MOOCs, Jonathan Haber Neuroplasticity, Moheb Costandi Open Access, Peter Suber Paradox, Margaret Cuonzo Post-Truth, Lee McIntyre Robots, John Jordan Self-Tracking, Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus Sustainability, Kent E. Portney The Technological Singularity, Murray Shanahan Understanding Beliefs, Nils J. Nilsson Waves, Frederic Raichlen POST-TRUTH LEE MCINTYRE The MIT Press | Cambridge, Massachusetts | London, England © 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Chaparral Pro by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McIntyre, Lee C., author. Title: Post-truth / Lee C. McIntyre. Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2018. | Series: The MIT Press essential knowledge series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017034497 | ISBN 9780262535045 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Truth. | Truthfulness and falsehood. Classification: LCC BD171 .M39 2018 | DDC 121–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034497 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Andy and Jon Fellow lovers of wisdom The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. —George Orwell
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