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Future Politics - Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Paperback)
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Future Politics - Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Paperback)
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Loot Price R292
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Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single
question: how much of our collective life should be determined by
the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society?
Now the debate is different: to what extent should our lives be
directed and controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what
terms? Digital technologies - from artificial intelligence to
blockchain, from robotics to virtual reality - are transforming the
way we live together. Those who control the most powerful
technologies are increasingly able to control the rest of us. As
time goes on, these powerful entities - usually big tech firms and
the state - will set the limits of our liberty, decreeing what may
be done and what is forbidden. Their algorithms will determine
vital questions of social justice. In their hands, democracy will
flourish or decay. A landmark work of political theory, Future
Politics challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or
equal, what it means to have power or property, and what it means
for a political system to be just or democratic. In a time of rapid
and relentless changes, it is a book about how we can - and must -
regain control. Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished
Book Prize.
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