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Future Politics - Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Hardcover)
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Future Politics - Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Hardcover)
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Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of
our time: how will digital technology transform politics and
society? The great political debate of the last century was about
how much of our collective life should be determined by the state
and what should be left to the market and civil society. In the
future, the question will be how far our lives should be directed
and controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what terms?
Jamie Susskind argues that rapid and relentless innovation in a
range of technologies - from artificial intelligence to virtual
reality - will transform the way we live together. Calling for a
fundamental change in the way we think about politics, he describes
a world in which certain technologies and platforms, and those who
control them, come to hold great power over us. Some will gather
data about our lives, causing us to avoid conduct perceived as
shameful, sinful, or wrong. Others will filter our perception of
the world, choosing what we know, shaping what we think, affecting
how we feel, and guiding how we act. Still others will force us to
behave certain ways, like self-driving cars that refuse to drive
over the speed limit. Those who control these technologies -
usually big tech firms and the state - will increasingly control
us. They will set the limits of our liberty, decreeing what we may
do and what is forbidden. Their algorithms will resolve vital
questions of social justice, allocating social goods and sorting us
into hierarchies of status and esteem. They will decide the future
of democracy, causing it to flourish or decay. A groundbreaking
work of political analysis, Future Politics challenges readers to
rethink what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have
power or property, what it means for a political system to be just
or democratic, and proposes ways in which we can - and must -
regain control.
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