Monster

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Paul Roehrig. Monster

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MONSTER

1. HAVE WE CREATED A MONSTER?

Can we tame the beast?

Notes

2. MACHINES

Welcome to the web

Entangled in the dark: Quantum computing powers up

Speed makes it harder to drive

Big Brother was an amateur

From MAD to MADD

Notes

3. CAPITAL

Income return, growth, and I dream of Gini

Surveillance capitalism and the digital oligarchs

Data, privacy, and the health of nations

Belt, road, and surveillance communism

Tribes and borders in cyberspace

Power shifts from the G7 to the D7

Notes

Now, a little intermission. . .

4. PSYCHOLOGY

Digital fentanyl

Your 70,000-year-old operating system is melting

Who are you again? Identity in the digital age

The singularity is near. Unfortunately

Notes

5. SOCIETY

Modern Luddites and the growing techlash

Lessons from the rearview mirror

War has already been declared

Notes

6. A MANIFESTO FOR TAMING THE MONSTER

I. Co-author new rules of the road

II. Govern technology by community

III. Apply The Golden Rule in cyberspace

IV. Accept your role as part of the solution

V. Don’t give up on loving tech

VI. Treat your data like your reputation

VII. Fight against the relentless brain hacks

Channel your inner Marcus Aurelius

Demand an easy-access “off-switch”

VIII. Modernize the authority over technology and capital

Notes

7. OFF?

8. POSTFACE

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

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So far, overall, we’ve been largely right. While it’s true that the pandemic is clearly reshaping how and where we work, it’s also the case that forecasts of AI and robots causing a job apocalypse were overblown. Before the pandemic, employment numbers were at record levels in the Western world, and many sectors show signs of quick recovery. Being “pragmatic optimists” about technology has seen us stand out in crowds of doom-mongers and dystopians.

But concerns about technology’s negative side have grown stronger and stronger since we published Machines, and despite our best efforts to the contrary, the zeitgeist that surrounds technology has become steadily bleaker. Even at a moment when tech has been a lifeline for people stuck at home during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

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