Thinking ahead-- essays on big data, digital revolution, and participatory market society. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dirk Helbing.
• Authors: Helbing, Dirk
• Contents: Preface -- Introduction--Have We Opened Pandora's Box? -- Lost Robustness -- How and Why Our Conventional Economic Thinking Causes Global Crises -- 2Networked Minds3 Require A Fundamentally New Kind of Economics -- A New Kind of Economy is Born--Social Decision-Makers Beat the 3Homo Economicus3 -- Global Networks Must Be Redesigned -- Big Data--A Powerful New Resource for the 21st Century8 -- Google as God? Opportunities and Risks of the Information Age -- From Technology-Driven Society to Socially Oriented Technology: The Future of Information Society--Alternatives to Surveillance -- Big Data Society: Age of Reputation or Age of Discrimination? -- Big Data, Privacy, and Trusted Web: What Needs to Be Done -- What the Digital Revolution Means for Us -- Creating (2Making3) a Planetary Nervous System as Citizen Web.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 005.7; Computer science; Big data; Data mining; Internet -- Social aspects; Internet -- Political aspects; COMPUTERS -- Database Management -- General; COMPUTERS -- Database Management -- Data Warehousing; Big data; Data mining; Internet -- Political aspects; Internet -- Social aspects; Computers and IT; Science -- System Theory; Business & Economics -- Economics -- General; Computers -- Database Management -- Data Mining; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Technology & Engineering -- General; Social research & statistics; Economic history; Data mining; Sociology; Cybernetics & systems theory; Social sciences -- Data processing; Economic history; Engineering; Computers -- Data Processing; Society & social sciences; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319150789; 3319150782; 3319150774; 9783319150772
• Related ISBNs: 9783319150772
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 14, 2015).
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