Towards Digital Enlightenment
Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution
Editors: Helbing, Dirk (Ed.)
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Dirk Helbing is Professor of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and member of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich, as well as co-founder of ETH Zurich’s Risk Center. He is internationally known for the scientific coordination of the FuturICT Initiative (http://www.futurict.eu), which focuses on the understanding of techno-socioeconomic systems, using Smart Data. Helbing is elected member of the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina” and worked in the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems. He is also a board member of the Global Brain Institute in Brussels and of the International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES) in Geneva.
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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The World Today: A Net Assessment
Pages 1-4
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Why Our Innovation System Is Failing and How to Change This
Pages 5-20
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The Hidden Danger of Big Data
Pages 21-23
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Machine Intelligence: Blessing or Curse? It Depends on Us!
Pages 25-39
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An Extension of Asimov’s Robotics Laws
Pages 41-46
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Towards Digital Enlightenment
- Book Subtitle
- Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution
- Editors
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- Dirk Helbing
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-90869-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-90869-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-90868-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 222
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 illustrations in colour
- Topics
