Contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction: Taking the Long View of Digital Revolution
  3. The Threat to Human Agency
  4. We Should Avoid a Present Bias about Computers and a Belief in Human Exceptionalism
  5. Forward to a Social-Digital Future
  6. A Note on Philosophical Method
  7. An Outline of the Book
  8. 1   Is the Digital Revolution the Next Big Thing?
  9. Will the Digital Revolution Fizzle?
  10. The Magic Combination of Artificial Intelligence and Data
  11. How AI Could Transform Transportation
  12. How AI Could Transform Health
  13. Concluding Comments
  14. 2   AI’s Split Personality—Minds or Mind Workers?
  15. Philosophical and Pragmatic Interests in Machine Minds: A Focus on Making Minds or on Doing Mind Work
  16. The Difference between Authentic and Ersatz Minds
  17. Hyperactive Agency Detectors and Human-Like Machines
  18. A Moral Reason to Avoid Creating Machines with Minds
  19. Concluding Comments
  20. 3   Data as a New Form of Wealth
  21. How Could Data Be Wealth?
  22. Unfairness and the New Forms of Wealth
  23. Does Data Want to Be Free?
  24. Do unto Facebook and Google … Micropayments for the Use of Our Data?
  25. Concluding Comments
  26. 4   Can Work Be a Norm for Humans in the Digital Age?
  27. Searching for Work that Is Both Productive and Therapeutic in the Digital Age
  28. The Inductive Optimism of the Economists
  29. The Protean Powers of the Digital Package
  30. Will Humans Always Control the Last Mile of Choice?
  31. A Conjecture about the Labor Market of the Digital Age
  32. Gaining Philosophical Perspective on the Dispute between Optimists and Pessimists
  33. Concluding Comments
  34. 5   Caring about the Feelings of Lovers and Baristas
  35. What Is It Like to Love a Robot?
  36. From Romantic to Work Relationships
  37. What Counts as a Social Job?
  38. Can I Justify My Pro-Human Bias?
  39. Concluding Comments
  40. 6   Features of the Social Economy in the Digital Age
  41. Two Economies for the Digital Age
  42. Some Noteworthy Differences between Social and Digital Goods
  43. The Ambiguous Digital Futures of Sales Assistants
  44. The Different Digital Age Futures of Uber and Airbnb
  45. Space Exploration as Social Work
  46. Concluding Comments
  47. 7   A Tempered Optimism about the Digital Age
  48. The Different Logic of Predictions and Ideals
  49. We Should Prefer Robust Ideals
  50. The Social-Digital Economy versus the Collaborative Commons
  51. The Social-Digital Economy versus a Jobless Future with a Universal Basic Income
  52. The UBI as an Inadequate Response to Inequality in the Digital Age
  53. An Expanded Basic Income?
  54. Concluding Comments
  55. 8   Machine Breaking for the Digital Age
  56. See through the Digital Halo Effect!
  57. Don’t Fall for Tech TINA!
  58. If You Can Cheat an Algorithm, Then Why Not?
  59. Work for Free for Oxfam, but Make Facebook Pay!
  60. Don’t Fight the Last War!
  61. Concluding Comments
  62. 9   Making a Very Human Digital Age
  63. Welcoming a Social Age
  64. Index