Product details
- Categories: January 2020, Democracy, Futur de l'Europe
- Publisher: OUP - Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 9780198848929
- Publication Date: 26/03/2020
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 544
Summary
Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question:
how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and
what should be left to the market and civil society?
Now the
debate is different: to what extent should our lives be directed and
controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what terms?
Digital
technologies - from artificial intelligence to blockchain, from
robotics to virtual reality - are transforming the way we live together.
Those who control the most powerful technologies are increasingly able
to control the rest of us. As time goes on, these powerful entities -
usually big tech firms and the state - will set the limits of our
liberty, decreeing what may be done and what is forbidden. Their
algorithms will determine vital questions of social justice. In their
hands, democracy will flourish or decay.
A landmark work of political theory, Future Politics
challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or equal, what
it means to have power or property, and what it means for a political
system to be just or democratic. In a time of rapid and relentless
changes, it is a book about how we can - and must - regain control.
Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize.
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. THE DIGITAL LIFEWORLD
1: Increasingly Capable Systems
2: Increasingly Integrated Technology
3: Increasingly Quantified Society
4: Thinking Like a Theorist
Part II. FUTURE POWER
5: Code is Power
6: Force
7: Scrutiny
8: Perception-Control
9: Public and Private Power
Part III. FUTURE LIBERTY
10: Freedom and the Supercharged State
11: Freedom and the Tech Firm
Part IV. FUTURE DEMOCRACY
12: The Dream of Democracy
13: Democracy in the Future
Part V. FUTURE JUSTICE
14: Algorithms of Distribution
15: Algorithms of Recognition
16: Algorithmic Injustice
17: Technological Unemployment
18: The Wealth Cyclone
Part VI. FUTURE POLITICS
19: Transparency and the New Separation of Powers
20: Post-Politics