| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibligraphical references (pages 371-375) and index. |
| Summary |
Evaluates the negative impact of digital network technologies on the economy and particularly the middle class, citing challenges to employment and personal wealth while exploring the potential of a new information economy. |
| Contents |
Motivation -- A simple idea -- Money as seen through one computer scientist's eyes -- The ad hoc construction of mass dignity -- "Siren servers" -- The specter of the perfect investment -- Some pioneering siren servers -- From below: mass unemployment events -- From above: misusing big data to become ridiculous -- Markets and energy landscapes -- Narcissism -- Story lost -- Coercion on autopilot: specialized network effects -- Obscuring the human element -- Story found -- Complaint is not enough -- Clout must underlie rights, if rights are to persist -- First thought, best thought -- The project -- We need to do better than ad hoc levees -- Some first principles -- Who will do what? -- Big business -- How will we earn and spend -- Risk -- Financial identity -- Inclusion -- The interface to reality -- Creepy -- A stab at mitigating creepiness -- The transition -- Leadership. |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Economic aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
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Economics.
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| ISBN |
9781451654967 hardcover |
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1451654960 hardcover |
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