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Author Srinivasan, Ramesh, 1976- author. Author.

Title Beyond the valley : how innovators around the world are overcoming inequality and creating the technologies of tomorrow / Ramesh Srinivasan.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  COMPUTER 004 SRINIVASAN    Check Shelf
Description x, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet.
Contents Foreword / Douglas Rushkoff -- The power of data -- The social contract -- Foreclosing the future -- Disconnection and connection -- Blind solutions -- Brave new digital world -- Cambridge Analytica and global disinformation -- The great radicalizers -- Bernie is born -- Digital war games around the world -- Disrupting jobs and lives -- Protecting work and workers -- Working hard, struggling harder -- Money for everybody? : exploring universal basic income -- Worker-owned technologies -- Discrimination technologies -- Keeping network power local / with Aditi Mehta -- Questioning connectivity -- African-born technology -- AI in Uganda -- Innovating from the ground up in Kenya -- Mobile power to the people : indigenous networks In Mexico -- Blockchain : a crazy free-for-all, and maybe more? / with Adam Reese -- Technology for all -- Educating and protecting our future.
Subject Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Internet industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01766714
Internet (DE-588)4308416-3
Big Data (DE-588)4802620-7
Soziale Gerechtigkeit (DE-588)4236433-4
ISBN 9780262043137 hardcover alkaline paper
0262043130 hardcover alkaline paper
9780262539609 (paperback)
0262539608 (paperback)
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