Future Politics
Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 September 2018
- ISBN 9780198825616
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 235x163x44 mm
- Weight 831 g
- Language English 60
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Short description:
Future Politics confronts the most important question of our time: how will digital technology change society?
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Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and civil 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 - from artificial intelligence to virtual reality - 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.
A groundbreaking work of political analysis, 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.
The most interesting exploration yet of the political realities in the digital era.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. THE DIGITAL LIFEWORLD
Increasingly Capable Systems
Increasingly Integrated Technology
Increasingly Quantified Society
Thinking Like a Theorist
Part II. FUTURE POWER
Code is Power
Force
Scrutiny
Perception-Control
Public and Private Power
Part III. FUTURE LIBERTY
Freedom and the Supercharged State
Freedom and the Tech Firm
Part IV. FUTURE DEMOCRACY
The Dream of Democracy
Democracy in the Future
Part V. FUTURE JUSTICE
Algorithms of Distribution
Algorithms of Recognition
Algorithmic Injustice
Technological Unemployment
The Wealth Cyclone
Part VI. FUTURE POLITICS
Transparency and the New Separation of Powers
Post-Politics
