Cover
Title Page
Copyright
1 HAVE WE CREATED A MONSTER?
1. Can we tame the beast?
2. Notes
2 MACHINES
1. Welcome to the web
2. Entangled in the dark: Quantum computing powers up
3. Speed makes it harder to drive
4. Big Brother was an amateur
5. From MAD to MADD
6. Notes
3 CAPITAL
1. Income return, growth, and I dream of Gini
2. Surveillance capitalism and the digital oligarchs
3. Data, privacy, and the health of nations
4. Belt, road, and surveillance communism
5. Tribes and borders in cyberspace
6. Power shifts from the G7 to the D7
7. Notes
4 PSYCHOLOGY
1. Digital fentanyl
2. Your 70,000-year-old operating system is melting
3. Who are you again? Identity in the digital age
4. The singularity is near. Unfortunately
5. Notes
5 SOCIETY
1. Modern Luddites and the growing techlash
2. Lessons from the rearview mirror
3. War has already been declared
4. Notes
6 A MANIFESTO FOR TAMING THE MONSTER
1. I. Co-author new rules of the road
2. II. Govern technology by community
3. III. Apply The Golden Rule in cyberspace
4. IV. Accept your role as part of the solution
5. V. Don’t give up on loving tech
6. VI. Treat your data like your reputation
7. VII. Fight against the relentless brain hacks
8. VIII. Modernize the authority over technology and capital
9. Notes
7 OFF?
8 POSTFACE
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index
End User License Agreement

Paul Roehrig | Ben Pring

MONSTER

A Tough Love Letter On Taming The Machines That Rule Our Jobs, Lives, and Future

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