Future politics : living together in a world transformed by tech /

Future politics : living together in a world transformed by tech /

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Author / Creator:	Susskind, Jamie, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xiv, 516 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Technology -- Political aspects. Technology -- Social aspects. Information technology -- Political aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Information technology -- Political aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Technology -- Political aspects. Technology -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11782957

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ISBN:	0198825617 9780198825616
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and 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 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. '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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