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1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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The coauthors of the seminal book The Virtual Corporation describe how the rise of artificial intelligence and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformationand how we can thrive in this new era. We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are replacing human beings, and online environments are gathering our data and using it to manipulate us. This loss of human autonomy amounts to nothing less than a societal phase change, a fundamental paradigm shift. The same institutions will remainschools, banks, churches, and corporationsbut they will radically change form, obey new rules, and use new tools. William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone go deeply into the enormous implications of these developments. They show why increases in productivity no longer translate into increases in the GDP and how zero cost, one-to-many communications have been turned into tools for cybercrime and propaganda. Many of the book's recommendationssuch as using taxes to control irresponsible internet behavior and enabling people to put their data into what are essentially virtual personal information safety deposit boxesare bold and visionary, but we must figure out how we will deal with these emerging challenges now, before the Autonomous Revolution overcomes us. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-225) and index. |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction Digital Leviathan -- CHAPTER ONE: The Autonomous Revolution A Third Social Revolution -- CHAPTER TWO: A Brief History of Social Phase Changes Why This Time Things Are Different -- CHAPTER THREE: Substitutional Equivalences The Drivers of Societal Phase Change -- CHAPTER FOUR: Productivity without Prosperity The Emerging Era of Non-Monetizable Productivity -- CHAPTER FIVE: Commercial Transformation Rewriting Business and the Economy |
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CHAPTER SIX: The Death of the Good Job The Nature of Work in the Autonomous Revolution -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Liberty and Privacy Escaping the Algorithmic Prison -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Within the Chimera Living in a Virtual World -- CHAPTER NINE: The Body Politic Government in the Autonomous Revolution -- CHAPTER TEN: Sacred Values Novi Coeptus -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Authors |
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Artificial intelligence.
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Social change.
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Digital electronics.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Computers & Information Technology.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01145049
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Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
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Digital electronics. (OCoLC)fst00893670
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Artificial intelligence. (OCoLC)fst00817247
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Electronic books.
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Malone, Michael S. (Michael Shawn), 1954- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davidow, William. Autonomous Revolution : Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines. Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, ©2020 |
| ISBN |
9781523087648 (electronic bk.) |
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1523087641 (electronic bk.) |
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