George Zarkadakis
Foreword by Don Tapscott
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
© 2020 George Zarkadakis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Zarkadakēs, Giōrgos, 1964– author ; foreword by Don Tapscott.
Title: Cyber republic : reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines / George Zarkadakis.
Description: Cambridge, Massachussets : The MIT Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020000400 | ISBN 9780262044318 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Information society—Political aspects. | Artificial intelligence—Political aspects. | Political participation—Technological innovations. | Democracy.
Classification: LCC HM851 .Z36 2020 | DDC 303.48/3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020000400
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To my parents, Constantine and Helena
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
—Robert F. Kennedy