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A Brief History of Your Very Near Future

English · Hardback

Will be released 30.04.2020

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Informationen zum Autor Jamie Bartlett is the bestselling author of The Dark Net , Radicals , and The People Vs Tech , which was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and won the 2019 Transmission Prize. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos and regularly writes on technology and society for the Spectator , the Sunday Times and elsewhere. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley . His TedTalk about dark net drugs markets has been watched nearly six million times. In 2019 his critically acclaimed BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen reached number 1 on the iTunes charts, and has been downloaded millions of times. Zusammenfassung A deep dive into what the future holds for our digital lives, from how we die online to how to tell the truth in the era of Deep Fakes, by the prizewinning author of The People Vs Tech and The Dark Net Puts you and your life at the centre of the story about our digital future, which is already here and has consequences for everything from democracy to our very humanity, none of which we have reckoned with yet. REALITY You can no longer tell the difference between a bot and a human, and emotionally you are long past caring. CONTROL Your smart devices and intelligent possessions are not only measuring you but judging you. FREE WILL You’re now unable to protect your free will as micro profiling and neuro hacking can manipulate you at will. INEQUALITY You’re part of a new tech underclass, never off-grid, always on and working at the economic zero hours digital interface. TRUTH In the face of deep fake technology, truth has become a meaningless bankrupt currency. What do you replace it with? SECURITY The new digital and nano-robotic technologies means there is always threat – nowhere, no one and nothing is really safe anymore. TRUST Now algorithms are making all the decisions, how do we hold ourselves to account? HUMAN You can now hack your DNA and intelligence at will, should you have the right to this, and how does it affect our humanity? DEATH A virtual version of yourself can now live on after death, what does this mean for the living and the dead? ...

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Authors Jamie Bartlett
Publisher Ebury Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 30.04.2020, delayed
 
EAN 9781529105537
ISBN 978-1-5291-0553-7
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society

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