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Towards Digital Enlightenment: Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution

Towards Digital Enlightenment: Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution


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This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society, published at a time when our societies were on a path to technological totalitarianism, as exemplified by mass surveillance reported by Edward Snowden and others.   Meanwhile the threats have diversified and tech companies have gathered enough data to create detailed profiles about almost everyone living in the modern world - profiles that can predict our behavior better than our friends, families, or even partners. This is not only used to manipulate peoples’ opinions and voting behaviors, but more generally to influence consumer behavior at all levels. It is becoming increasingly clear that we are rapidly heading towards a cybernetic society, in which algorithms and social bots aim to control both the societal dynamics and individual behaviors.

Table of Contents:
Preface.- The World Today: A Net Assessment, by Dirk Helbing.- Why Our Innovation System Is Failing - and How to Change This, by Dirk Helbing- and How to Change This, by Dirk Helbing.- The Hidden Danger of Big Data, by Carlo Ratti and Dirk Helbing.- Machine intelligence: Blessing or curse? It depends on us!, by Dirk Helbing.- An Extension of Asimov’s Robotics Laws, by Jan Nagler, Jeroen van den Hoven and Dirk Helbing.- Societal, Economic, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Digital Revolution: From Big Data to Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Manipulative Technologies, by Dirk Helbing.- Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?, by Dirk Helbing, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ernst Hafen, Michael Hagner, Yvonne Hofstetter, Jeroen van den Hoven, Roberto V. Zicari, Andrej Zwitter.- Digital Fascism Rising?, by Dirk Helbing.- The Birth of a Digital God, by Dirk Helbing.- To the Elites of the World: Time to Act, by Dirk Helbing.- Why We Need Democracy 2.0 and Capitalism 2.0 to Survive, by Dirk Helbing.- How to Make Democracy Work in the Digital Age, by Dirk Helbing and Stefan Klauser.- The Blockchain Age: Awareness, Empowerment and Coordination, by Jeroen van den Hoven, Johan Pouwelse, Dirk Helbing and Stefan Klauser.- From War Rooms to Peace Rooms: A Proposal for the Pro-Social Use of Big Data Intelligence, by Dirk Helbing and Peter Seele.- New Security Approaches for the 21st Century: How to Support Crowd Security and Responsibility, by Dirk Helbing.- Homo Socialis: The Road Ahead, by Dirk Helbing.- Social Mirror: More Success through Awareness and Coordination, by Dirk Helbing.- Digitization 2.0: A New Game Begins, by Dirk Helbing.

About the Author :
Dirk Helbing is Professor of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and member of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich, as well as co-founder of ETH Zurich’s Risk Center. He is internationally known for the scientific coordination of the FuturICT Initiative (http://www.futurict.eu), which focuses on the understanding of techno-socioeconomic systems, using Smart Data. Helbing is elected member of the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina” and worked in the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems. He is also a board member of the Global Brain Institute in Brussels and of the International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES) in Geneva.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783319908687
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3319908685
  • Publisher Date: 05 Sep 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution


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