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Beyond the valley : how innovators around the world are overcoming inequality and creating the technologies of tomorrow Cover Image Book Book

Beyond the valley : how innovators around the world are overcoming inequality and creating the technologies of tomorrow / Ramesh Srinivasan.

Srinivasan, Ramesh, 1976- (author., Author).

Summary:

How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780262043137
  • ISBN: 0262043130
  • Physical Description: x, 408 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / Douglas Rushkoff -- The power of data -- The social contract -- Foreclosing the future -- Disconnection and connection -- Blind solutions -- Brave new digital world -- Cambridge Analytica and global disinformation -- The great radicalizers -- Bernie Is born -- Digital war games around the world -- Disrupting jobs and lives -- Protecting work and workers -- Working hard, struggling harder -- Money for everybody? : exploring universal basic income -- Worker-owned technologies -- Discrimination technologies -- Keeping network power local / with Aditi Mehta -- Questioning connectivity -- African-born technology -- AI In Uganda -- Innovating from the ground up in Kenya -- Mobile power to the people : Indigenous networks In Mexico -- Blockchain : a crazy free-for-all, and maybe more? / with Adam Reese -- Technology for all -- Educating and protecting our future.

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Subject: Internet > Moral and ethical aspects.
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Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Douglas Rushkoff
Introduction 1(6)
I Intrusive Tactics: Tracked, Hijacked, and Hooked
7(52)
1 The Power of Data
9(12)
2 The Social Contract
21(6)
3 Foreclosing the Future
27(12)
4 Disconnection and Connection
39(12)
5 Blind Solutions
51(8)
II Political Data Games: Targeted, Manipulated, and Motivated
59(54)
6 Brave New Digital World
61(8)
7 Cambridge Analytica and Global Disinformation
69(16)
8 The Great Radicalizers
85(10)
9 Bernie Is Born
95(10)
10 Digital War Games around the World
105(8)
III Gig Economy Blues: Corporate Windfalls or Living Wages? Ill
11 Disrupting Jobs and Lives
113(12)
12 Protecting Work and Workers
125(16)
13 Working Hard, Struggling Harder
141(6)
14 Money for Everybody? Exploring Universal Basic Income
147(8)
15 Worker-Owned Technologies
155(4)
16 Discrimination Technologies
159(10)
IV An Internet for Us All: Overcoming Inequality
169(88)
17 Keeping Network Power Localwith Aditi Mehta
171(10)
18 Questioning Connectivity
181(10)
19 African-Born Technology
191(14)
20 Al in Uganda
205(8)
21 Innovating from the Ground Up in Kenya
213(22)
22 Mobile Power to the People: Indigenous Networks in Mexico
235(22)
V Looking Toward Tomorrow: Our Path Is Not Locked In
257(56)
23 Blockchain: A Crazy Free-for-AII, and Maybe More?with Adam Reese
259(24)
24 Technology for All
283(14)
25 Educating and Protecting Our Future
297(16)
Conclusion 313(4)
Notes 317(74)
Index 391

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