Описание книги
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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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
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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