Towards Digital Enlightenment Essays on the Dark and Light Sides of the Digital Revolution /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Helbing, Dirk (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Computational complexity.; Social sciences-Data processing.; Social sciences-Computer programs.; Science-Social aspects.; Popular Social Sciences.; Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations.; Complex Systems.; Complexity.; Computational Social Sciences.; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.

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 repor...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The World Today: A Net Assessment, by Dirk Helbing
• Why Our Innovation System Is Failing - and How to Change This, by Dirk Helbing- and How to Change This, by Dirk Helbing
• The Hidden Danger of Big Data, by Carlo Ratti and Dirk Helbing
• Machine intelligence: Blessing or curse? It depends on us!, by Dirk Helbing
• An Extension of Asimov's Robotics Laws, by Jan Nagler, Jeroen van den Hoven and Dirk Helbing
• Societal, Economic, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Digital Revolution: From Big Data to Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Manipulative Technologies, by Dirk Helbing
• Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?, by Dirk Helbing, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ernst Hafen, Michael Hagner, Yvonne Hofstetter, Jeroen van den Hoven, Roberto V. Zicari, Andrej Zwitter
• Digital Fascism Rising?, by Dirk Helbing
• The Birth of a Digital God, by Dirk Helbing
• To the Elites of the World: Time to Act, by Dirk Helbing
• Why We Need Democracy 2.0 and Capitalism 2.0 to Survive, by Dirk Helbing
• How to Make Democracy Work in the Digital Age, by Dirk Helbing and Stefan Klauser
• The Blockchain Age: Awareness, Empowerment and Coordination, by Jeroen van den Hoven, Johan Pouwelse, Dirk Helbing and Stefan Klauser
• From War Rooms to Peace Rooms: A Proposal for the Pro-Social Use of Big Data Intelligence, by Dirk Helbing and Peter Seele
• New Security Approaches for the 21st Century: How to Support Crowd Security and Responsibility, by Dirk Helbing
• Homo Socialis: The Road Ahead, by Dirk Helbing
• Social Mirror: More Success through Awareness and Coordination, by Dirk Helbing
• Digitization 2.0: A New Game Begins, by Dirk Helbing.