Beyond the valley : how innovators around the world are overcoming inequality and creating the technologies of tomorrow / Ramesh Srinivasan.
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]
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
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. Internet industry > Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 174.93843 Srin (Text) | 33294002080497 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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.