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- A new collection of essays by the author of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society
- Examines the dangers of a world in which algorithms and social bots aim to control both the societal dynamics and individual behaviors.
- Introduces novel approaches on how to redefine collective trust and build platforms to support core societal values
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society, published at a time when our societies were on a path to technological totalitarianism, as exemplified by mass surveillance reported by Edward Snowden and others.
Meanwhile the threats have diversified and tech companies have gathered enough data to create detailed profiles about almost everyone living in the modern world - profiles that can predict our behavior better than our friends, families, or even partners. This is not only used to manipulate peoples’ opinions and voting behaviors, but more generally to influence consumer behavior at all levels. It is becoming increasingly clear that we are rapidly heading towards a cybernetic society, in which algorithms and social bots aim to control both the societal dynamics and individual behaviors. Back to top
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Editors and Affiliations
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CLU E 1, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Dirk Helbing
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards Digital Enlightenment
Book Subtitle: Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution
Editors: Dirk Helbing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90869-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90868-7Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90869-4Published: 27 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Social Sciences, Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations, Complex Systems, Complexity, Computational Social Sciences, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education