Your Choice

Your Choice
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A humanist, ecological, and technological call to action Change today is happening faster than ever before. We are overwhelmed by new technologies and an excess of information, and we feel that we and what we used to think of as society are being suffocated. Those who drive this change pursue primarily two goals: profit and power. They lure us with clickbait and abuse us as a data pool, reducing our existence to one of human resource and consumer. In doing so they threaten our democracy, our diversity, even our humanity itself. It doesn t have to be like this, thinks humanist and entrepreneur Christopher Peterka. Instead of basing our ambition on purely economic yield, he pleads for a radical new dialogue about being human: Who do we want to be? How do we want to live together as a society? What meaning is our ambition meant to have? We have to consider these questions afresh, because if we don t do so, others will. But this means leaving behind short term solutions, and taking a stance against the current system to throw off the shackles that tie us down.
Your Choice is a call to action that encourages us to challenge the status quo and to bring lasting change as progressive optimists.

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Christopher Peterka. Your Choice

WHAT THIS IS ABOUT:

CONTENTS

Prologue. Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. IT’S A HUG

Intro. Estimated reading time: 15 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 9 minutes. Second section: 6 minutes. HOW LONG WE’LL BE HERE FOR IS UP TO US. HELLO

THE ANTHROPOCENE

Chapter 1. Estimated reading time: 23 minutes in 3 sections. First section: 7 minutes. Second section: 10 minutes. Third section: 6 minutes. WE ARE SLAVES TO DIGITAL MONOPOLIES. FROM GUTENBERG TO ZUCKERBERG—LIBERATION TO INTOXICATION. LIBERATION

INTOXICATION

A BIT OF CONTEXT

Chapter 2. Estimated reading time: 25 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 11 minutes. Second section: 14 minutes. GAFATA RULES THE WORLD. VIRTUAL SPACES AND REAL TERRITORIES—TWO SIDES OF THE SAME ›COIN‹? THE DIGITAL & PHYSICAL WORLDS

NEW BATTLEGROUNDS, NEW RIGHTS, NEW IDENTITIES

Chapter 3. Estimated reading time: 22 minutes in 3 sections. First section: 9 minutes. Second section: 9 minutes. Third section: 4 minutes. THE ONLY THING WE LACK FOR A SYSTEM CHANGE IS DETERMINATION. HEDONIST 3.0—THE WUCHERMENSCH. PLAY

PAUSE

REWIND, PLAY

Chapter 4. Estimated reading time: 26 minutes in 4 sections. First section: 9 minutes. Second section: 3 minutes. Third section: 9 minutes. Fourth section: 5 minutes. WE ARE TERRIFIED OF OUR CAPACITY FOR LOVE. PRICE VS VALUE—TELLING THE DIFFERENCE AND KNOWING WHAT MATTERS. COST

FETISH

CARE

LOVE

Chapter 5. Estimated reading time: 18 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 13 minutes. Second section: 5 minutes. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT STEER A SUPERTANKER WHILE THEY ARE ON DRUGS. OF DECKCHAIRS AND RUDDERS—REALISING WE’RE NOT POWERLESS. BE THE TRIM TAB

BE WATER, MY FRIEND

Chapter 6. Estimated reading time: 26 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 12 minutes. Second section: 14 minutes. EXPONENTIALITY IS LETHAL. OF EXPONENTIAL GROWTH AND HOCKEY STICKS—CAUGHT IN SOMETHING WE CAN’T IMAGINE. A FEW GRAINS OF RICE

THE J TO THE S

Chapter 7. Estimated reading time: 17 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 11 minutes. Second section: 6 minutes. WE ARE BUT A BLIP. ACCELERATING ACCELERATION—WHY WE’RE ACHING TO SLOW DOWN. THE LOSS OF TIME

A TIME OF LOSS

Chapter 8. Estimated reading time: 21 minutes in two sections. First section: 14 minutes. Second section: 7 minutes. WE WILL FUSE WITH OUR MACHINES. HOMO LUDENS VS SOFTWARE SAPIENS—THE NEW SPECIES ON THE PLANET. PLAYING HUMANS

WISE ALGORITHMS

Chapter 9. Estimated reading time: 19 minutes in 3 sections. First section: 4 minutes. Second section: 9 minutes. Third section: 6 minutes. SAVING THE PLANET COSTS NOTHING. THE UNKNOWN AND ITS POTENTIAL—EMBRACING THE ›PROBLEM‹ PILLS

STORIES

ACTION

Chapter 10. Estimated reading time: 14 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 10 minutes. Second section: 4 minutes. THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS BEYOND REPAIR. INCLUSION—WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. STEWARDSHIP

A PIVOT

Chapter 11. Estimated reading time: 16 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 6 minutes. Second section: 10 minutes. WHY NOT FARM FLAMINGOS IN GREENLAND? HUMAN RESOURCES TO RESOURCEFUL HUMANS—UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE ARE. ORGANISMS

ADAPTATION

Chapter 12. Estimated reading time: 15 minutes in 2 sections. First section: 8 minutes. Second section: 7 minutes. IT’S ALL RIGHT TO BE CLUELESS. THE COMFORT ZONE—WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT IT? HOME

HERITAGE

Chapter 13. Estimated reading time: 18 minutes in 3 sections. Plus a brief intro. First section: 6 minutes. Second section: 7 minutes. Third section: 5 minutes. ALTERNATIVE FACTS ARE REAL. ADAPTING TO NEW REALITIES—THREE CASES IN POINT

1 CODING VS DECODING

2 INFRASTRUCTURE AS POWER

3 SOCIAL MEDIA AS POLITICS

Chapter 14. Estimated reading time: 12 minutes in 7 sections. of between 1 and 2 minutes each, and a brief intro. TRUST ONLY FORENSICALLY. THE DIGITAL MODERN ERA—AN OUTLINE IN SEVEN PERSPECTIVES

1 SPEED, REACH, AND DISTORTION

2 THE TYRANNY OF TRANSPARENCY

3 ELECTRIC SHEEP AND THEIR KEEPERS

4 HOMO LUDENS

5 MEDIUM & MATERIAL

6 LIVING IN THE SPACE OF STREAMS

7 DIGITAL DIALECTIC

Chapter 15. Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. SAME OLD MEANS REGRESSION. DIFFERENT MEANS SYSTEM CHANGE. A CONCLUSION—WHAT CHOICE?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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A HUMANISTIC, ECOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL WAKE-UP CALL – to carry its global appeal across geographical boundaries, this book is conceived as a reverse cover with the English and German texts contained in one volume.

Change today is happening faster than ever before. We are overwhelmed by new technologies and an excess of information, and we feel that we and what we used to think of as society are being suffocated. Those who drive this change pursue primarily two goals: profit and power. They lure us with clickbait and abuse us as a data pool, reducing our existence to one of human resource and consumer. In doing so they threaten our democracy, our diversity, even our humanity itself.

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Chapter 13

ALTERNATIVE FACTS ARE REAL

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