Towards digital enlightenment : essays on the dark and light sides of the digital revolution /: essays on the dark and light sides of the digital revolution. (2018)
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- Title:
- Towards digital enlightenment : essays on the dark and light sides of the digital revolution /: essays on the dark and light sides of the digital revolution. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Towards digital enlightenment : essays on the dark and light sides of the digital revolution
- Further Information:
- Note: Dirk Helbing, editor.
- Editors:
- Helbing, Dirk
- Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: The World Today: A Net Assessment; 1.1 Planet Earth Is in Trouble; 1.2 Misleading Indicators; 1.3 Fallout from the Financial Crisis; 1.4 Talk of World War III; 1.5 Time to Start a New Chapter of Human History; 1.6 Takeaways; Chapter 2: Why Our Innovation System Is Failing and How to Change This; 2.1 The Innovation Crisis; 2.2 An Outdated Innovation System; 2.3 Forget About Determining the Best Innovations Beforehand!; 2.4 Everyone Wants Innovations, but Opposes Them!; 2.5 Detecting Game-Changing Ideas and the Innovators Behind Them 2.6 Chance: The True Father of New Ideas?2.7 Social Factors Matter; 2.8 Re-inventing Innovation; 2.9 Micropayments Are Better Than Protecting Intellectual Property; Further Reading; Chapter 3: The Hidden Danger of Big Data; Chapter 4: Machine Intelligence: Blessing or Curse? It Depends on Us!; 4.1 A Worst-Case Scenario; 4.2 A Best-Case Scenario; Appendix: Some Common Pitfalls of Data-Driven Technologies; Big Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Big Nudging; Further Reading; Chapter 5: An Extension of Asimovś Robotics Laws; References Chapter 6: Societal, Economic, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Digital Revolution: From Big Data to Deep Learning, Artific...6.1 Overview of Some New Digital Technology Trends; 6.1.1 Big Data; 6.1.2 Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Super-Intelligence; 6.1.3 Persuasive Technologies and Nudging to Manipulate Individual Decisions; 6.2 Attempt of aIntro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: The World Today: A Net Assessment; 1.1 Planet Earth Is in Trouble; 1.2 Misleading Indicators; 1.3 Fallout from the Financial Crisis; 1.4 Talk of World War III; 1.5 Time to Start a New Chapter of Human History; 1.6 Takeaways; Chapter 2: Why Our Innovation System Is Failing and How to Change This; 2.1 The Innovation Crisis; 2.2 An Outdated Innovation System; 2.3 Forget About Determining the Best Innovations Beforehand!; 2.4 Everyone Wants Innovations, but Opposes Them!; 2.5 Detecting Game-Changing Ideas and the Innovators Behind Them 2.6 Chance: The True Father of New Ideas?2.7 Social Factors Matter; 2.8 Re-inventing Innovation; 2.9 Micropayments Are Better Than Protecting Intellectual Property; Further Reading; Chapter 3: The Hidden Danger of Big Data; Chapter 4: Machine Intelligence: Blessing or Curse? It Depends on Us!; 4.1 A Worst-Case Scenario; 4.2 A Best-Case Scenario; Appendix: Some Common Pitfalls of Data-Driven Technologies; Big Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Big Nudging; Further Reading; Chapter 5: An Extension of Asimovś Robotics Laws; References Chapter 6: Societal, Economic, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Digital Revolution: From Big Data to Deep Learning, Artific...6.1 Overview of Some New Digital Technology Trends; 6.1.1 Big Data; 6.1.2 Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Super-Intelligence; 6.1.3 Persuasive Technologies and Nudging to Manipulate Individual Decisions; 6.2 Attempt of a Technology Assessment; 6.2.1 Problems with Big Data Analytics; 6.2.2 Problems with Artificial Intelligence and Super-Intelligence; 6.2.3 Problems with Manipulative (``Persuasive)́́ Technologies; 6.3 Recommendations 6.3.1 Recommendations Regarding Big Data6.3.2 Recommendations Regarding Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence; 6.3.3 Recommendations Regarding Manipulative Technologies; 6.4 Summary, Conclusions and Discussion; Chapter 7: Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?; 7.1 Is This Alarmism?; 7.2 Programmed Society, Programmed Citizens; 7.3 Pre-programmed Catastrophes; 7.4 Legal Issues; 7.5 A Better Digital Society Is Possible; 7.6 A Strategy for the Digital Age; 7.7 Democratic Platforms; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Digital Fascism Rising? 8.1 Features of Digital Societies8.2 Saving Democracy; 8.3 Manipulating Behavior; 8.4 Countering Digital Totalitarianism; 8.5 Concerning Global Events; 8.6 Takeaways; Chapter 9: The Birth of a Digital God; Chapter 10: To the Elites of the World: Time to Act; 10.1 A Final Call to Action; 10.2 Rethinking the World Economy: From Push to Pull; 10.3 A New Social Contract; 10.4 Reform of the United Nations; 10.5 Upgrade of Todayś Capitalism; 10.6 Democratic Capitalism, Crowd Funding for All; 10.7 Reforms of the Financial System; 10.8 Digital Upgrade of Democracy (``Digital Democracy)́́ … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 338/.064
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319908694
3319908693 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319908687
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- Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 30, 2018)
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