Machine, platform, crowd. Our digital future
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About the book
The study of the principles and trends standing behind the modern digital revolution and determining our future.
Today, many are interested in how the appearance of cars, platforms and crowds will affect their lives. Will cars leave them without work? Will influential platforms control all their economic solutions? Will they have less freedom in how and when to work, where to live, with whom to communicate? These are very important problems. However, often they are special cases of a simple question: what will the technology do with us? But this is the wrong statement of the question. Technology is nothing more than a tool, and it doesn’t matter whether it is a hammer or a deep neural network. The tools do not decide what will happen to people. People decide. Therefore, to ask correctly: "What do we want to do using technology?"
Machines, platforms and a crowd are able to give a variety of results depending on how they are used. They can help someone increase power and wealth, but, on the contrary, can make benefits and the right to make decisions more distributed among people. They can increase privacy, improve openness or even do both at the same time. They can create a working atmosphere, saturated with inspiration and determination or permeated by self -love and fear. As the technology grows, our capabilities are growing. This increases the importance of clear goals and serious reflection on values. The authors with optimism look into the future.
The next few decades, in their opinion, can and should become better than any others that humanity had previously seen. This is not a prediction, it is an achievable goal. No specific future is predetermined. And just like people are able to pave their own route, both companies and society as a whole can do this. And this book is designed to help each reader to their own route to the future.
For whom this book
For everyone who is interested in technologies, trends, future
The study of the principles and trends standing behind the modern digital revolution and determining our future.
Today, many are interested in how the appearance of cars, platforms and crowds will affect their lives. Will cars leave them without work? Will influential platforms control all their economic solutions? Will they have less freedom in how and when to work, where to live, with whom to communicate? These are very important problems. However, often they are special cases of a simple question: what will the technology do with us? But this is the wrong statement of the question. Technology is nothing more than a tool, and it doesn’t matter whether it is a hammer or a deep neural network. The tools do not decide what will happen to people. People decide. Therefore, to ask correctly: "What do we want to do using technology?"
Machines, platforms and a crowd are able to give a variety of results depending on how they are used. They can help someone increase power and wealth, but, on the contrary, can make benefits and the right to make decisions more distributed among people. They can increase privacy, improve openness or even do both at the same time. They can create a working atmosphere, saturated with inspiration and determination or permeated by self -love and fear. As the technology grows, our capabilities are growing. This increases the importance of clear goals and serious reflection on values. The authors with optimism look into the future.
The next few decades, in their opinion, can and should become better than any others that humanity had previously seen. This is not a prediction, it is an achievable goal. No specific future is predetermined. And just like people are able to pave their own route, both companies and society as a whole can do this. And this book is designed to help each reader to their own route to the future.
For whom this book
For everyone who is interested in technologies, trends, future
Author:
Author:Andrew Makafi, Brignolfson Eric
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Business & Money
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Myth. Obroys
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00117-661-9
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