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100			_aSusskind, Jamie
245			_aFuture politics : living together in a world transformed by tech
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2020 _a Oxford :
300			_axvi, 516 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b11.99 _c£ _d113.80
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis book confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? In the future, the question will be how far our lives should be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what terms? Jamie Susskind argues that rapid and relentless innovation in a range of technologies will transform the way we live together. Calling for a fundamental change in the way we think about politics, he describes a world in which certain technologies and platforms, and those who control them, come to hold great power over us. Some will gather data about our lives, causing us to avoid conduct perceived as shameful, sinful, or wrong. Others will filter our perception of the world, choosing what we know, shaping what we think, affecting how we feel, and guiding how we act. Still others will force us to behave certain ways, like self-driving cars that refuse to drive over the speed limit. Those who control these technologies - usually big tech firms and the state - will increasingly control us. They will set the limits of our liberty, decreeing what we may do and what is forbidden. Their algorithms will resolve vital questions of social justice, allocating social goods and sorting us into hierarchies of status and esteem. They will decide the future of democracy, causing it to flourish or decay. 'Future Politics' challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have power or property, what it means for a political system to be just or democratic, and proposes ways in which we can - and must.
650			_aInformation technology
650			_aSocial aspects
650			_aDigital lifeworld
650			_aDirect Democracy
650			_aFuture justice
650			_aTechnological Singularity
650			_aPolitical Ideologies
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