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Today’s tech platforms are some of history's most advanced tools for
extracting as much as possible – data, attention, profit-margins – from
everyone else. As they become essential, we are at risk of building an
economy that is perpetually unfair for much of humanity.
Places and spaces where people can exchange information and goods have
been at the heart of every economy and every civilization in history,
but today’s global platforms - as provided by Amazon, Google, Apple,
Meta and others - are different: instead of providing value they
extract it, creating vast disparities in wealth and power between the
haves and have-nots. For the first time in history, we have the ability
to create sustainable prosperity for all, but currently that wealth is
concentrated in a tiny number of hands. It isn't abundance that's the
problem; it is distribution.
In this brilliantly engaging, frequently surprising account, Tim Wu,
one of the world’s foremost experts on anti-monopoly law, draws on
fascinating case studies in the history of technology's explosive rise
to demonstrate emphatically that breaking monopolies will ultimately
unleash creativity and growth - and reduce the vast inequality that
inevitably leads to social upheaval and political chaos. Wu also sets
out an alternative blueprint that preserves the economic flourishing
that platforms catalyze, allowing tech platforms to play a major role
in creating and sustaining an economic model of prosperity not just for
the few but for the many.
Philosophical and ethical discussions of warfare are often tied to
emerging technologies and techniques. Today we are presented with
what many believe is a radical shift in the nature of war-the
realization of conflict in the cyber-realm, the so-called "fifth
domain " of warfare. Does an aggressive act in the cyber-realm
constitute an act of war? If so, what rules should govern such
warfare? Are the standard theories of just war capable of analyzing
and assessing this mode of conflict? These changing circumstances
present us with a series of questions demanding serious attention.
Is there such a thing as cyberwarfare? How do the existing rules of
engagement and theories from the just war tradition apply to
cyberwarfare? How should we assess a cyber-attack conducted by a
state agency against private enterprise and vice versa?
Furthermore, how should actors behave in the cyber-realm? Are there
ethical norms that can be applied to the cyber-realm? Are the
classic just war constraints of non-combatant immunity and
proportionality possible in this realm? Especially given the idea
that events that are constrained within the cyber-realm do not
directly physically harm anyone, what do traditional ethics of war
conventions say about this new space? These questions strike at the
very center of contemporary intellectual discussion over the ethics
of war. In twelve original essays, plus a foreword from John
Arquilla and an introduction, Binary Bullets: The Ethics of
Cyberwarfare, engages these questions head on with contributions
from the top scholars working in this field today.
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
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