El escritor y investigador Xavier Nueno se ha llevado el primer lugar en la 54ª edición del Premio Anagrama de Ensayo el martes, con un premio de 10.000 euros por su obra ‘La revuelta de los copistas’. ‘How knowledge lost its mind’, a «unique, cutting, and humorous» view of the development of artificial intelligence.
The essay, which will be available in bookstores this Wednesday, is a story about the «privatization of knowledge and its conversion into commodities,» featuring copyists, stenographers, librarians, archivists, programmers, various technicians, and even minor characters as protagonists.
El escritor y investigador Xavier Nueno se ha llevado el primer lugar en la 54ª edición del Premio Anagrama de Ensayo el martes, con un premio de 10.000 euros por su obra ‘La revuelta de los copistas’. ‘How knowledge lost its mind,’ an «original, incisive and good-humored» view of the development of artificial intelligence. The manuscript by Nueno, born in Barcelona in 1990, has won among the 340 original entries received, originating from 24 countries, of which four advanced to the final deliberations of the jury, composed of Jordi Gracia, Pau Luque, Daniel Rico, Remedios Zafra, and editors Silvia Sesé and Isabel Obiols. The essay, which will reach bookstores this Wednesday, is a narrative about the «privatization of knowledge and its conversion into merchandise,» with copyists, stenographers, librarians, archivists, programmers, technicians of all kinds, and even paparazzi of characters. Moving away from apocalyptic prophecies, the author recalls that at the center of the current revolution «there is something as old as the library,» questioning, likewise, «what remains of the old humanist dream of universal knowledge.»
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