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Towards Digital Enlightenment

Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution

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Editors:
  1. Dirk Helbing

    1. CLU E 1, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • A new collection of essays by the author of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society
  • Examines the dangers of a world in which algorithms and social bots aim to control both the societal dynamics and individual behaviors.
  • Introduces novel approaches on how to redefine collective trust and build platforms to support core societal values

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The World Today: A Net Assessment

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 1-4

  3. Why Our Innovation System Is Failing and How to Change This

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 5-20

  4. The Hidden Danger of Big Data

    • Carlo Ratti, Dirk Helbing
    Pages 21-23

  5. Machine Intelligence: Blessing or Curse? It Depends on Us!

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 25-39

  6. An Extension of Asimov’s Robotics Laws

    • Jan Nagler, Jeroen van den Hoven, Dirk Helbing
    Pages 41-46

  7. Societal, Economic, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Digital Revolution: From Big Data to Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Manipulative Technologies

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 47-72

  8. Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?

    • Dirk Helbing, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ernst Hafen, Michael Hagner, Yvonne Hofstetter et al.
    Pages 73-98

  9. Digital Fascism Rising?

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 99-102

  10. The Birth of a Digital God

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 103-106

  11. To the Elites of the World: Time to Act

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 107-120

  12. Why We Need Democracy 2.0 and Capitalism 2.0 to Survive

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 121-156

  13. How to Make Democracy Work in the Digital Age

    • Dirk Helbing, Stefan Klauser
    Pages 157-162

  14. The Blockchain Age: Awareness, Empowerment and Coordination

    • Jeroen van den Hoven, Johan Pouwelse, Dirk Helbing, Stefan Klauser
    Pages 163-166

  15. From War Rooms to Peace Rooms: A Proposal for the Pro-Social Use of Big Data Intelligence

    • Dirk Helbing, Peter Seele
    Pages 167-171

  16. New Security Approaches for the Twenty-First Century: How to Support Crowd Security and Responsibility

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 173-186

  17. Homo Socialis: The Road Ahead

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 187-200

  18. Social Mirror: More Success Through Awareness and Coordination

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 201-212

  19. Digitization 2.0: A New Game Begins

    • Dirk Helbing
    Pages 213-222
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About this book

This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society, published at a time when our societies were on a path to technological totalitarianism, as exemplified by mass surveillance reported by Edward Snowden and others.

 

Meanwhile the threats have diversified and tech companies have gathered enough data to create detailed profiles about almost everyone living in the modern world - profiles that can predict our behavior better than our friends, families, or even partners. This is not only used to manipulate peoples’ opinions and voting behaviors, but more generally to influence consumer behavior at all levels. It is becoming increasingly clear that we are rapidly heading towards a cybernetic society, in which algorithms and social bots aim to control both the societal dynamics and individual behaviors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CLU E 1, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Dirk Helbing

About the editor

Dirk Helbing is Professor of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and member of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich, as well as co-founder of ETH Zurich’s Risk Center. He is internationally known for the scientific coordination of the FuturICT Initiative (http://www.futurict.eu), which focuses on the understanding of techno-socioeconomic systems, using Smart Data. Helbing is elected member of the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina” and worked in the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems. He is also a board member of the Global Brain Institute in Brussels and of the International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES) in Geneva.

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