quite relevant to Bleeding Edge in some larger way. From the pull quote thru Erich Fromm name-checked.

[Mark Kohut]

For Smith, a philosophy professor in Paris, the way to understand the
internet today is to recognise it as the latest stage of a scientific and
philosophical genealogy that can be traced back to early modernity, in
which dreams of computation, connectivity and automated intelligence are
writ large.

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2022/05/internet-justin-smith-ben-tarnoff-review?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652768681-2