How to Be Human in the Digital Economy by Agar, Nicholas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Taking the Long View of Digital Revolution

The Threat to Human Agency We Should Avoid a Present Bias about Computers and a Belief in Human Exceptionalism Forward to a Social-Digital Future A Note on Philosophical Method An Outline of the Book

1. Is the Digital Revolution the Next Big Thing?

Will the Digital Revolution Fizzle? The Magic Combination of Artificial Intelligence and Data How AI Could Transform Transportation How AI Could Transform Health Concluding Comments

2. AI’s Split Personality—Minds or Mind Workers?

3. Data as a New Form of Wealth

How Could Data Be Wealth? Unfairness and the New Forms of Wealth Does Data Want to Be Free? Do unto Facebook and Google … Micropayments for the Use of Our Data? Concluding Comments

4. Can Work Be a Norm for Humans in the Digital Age?

5. Caring about the Feelings of Lovers and Baristas

What Is It Like to Love a Robot? From Romantic to Work Relationships What Counts as a Social Job? Can I Justify My Pro-Human Bias? Concluding Comments

6. Features of the Social Economy in the Digital Age

Two Economies for the Digital Age Some Noteworthy Differences between Social and Digital Goods The Ambiguous Digital Futures of Sales Assistants The Different Digital Age Futures of Uber and Airbnb Space Exploration as Social Work Concluding Comments

7. A Tempered Optimism about the Digital Age

The Different Logic of Predictions and Ideals We Should Prefer Robust Ideals The Social-Digital Economy versus the Collaborative Commons The Social-Digital Economy versus a Jobless Future with a Universal Basic Income The UBI as an Inadequate Response to Inequality in the Digital Age An Expanded Basic Income? Concluding Comments

8. Machine Breaking for the Digital Age

See through the Digital Halo Effect! Don’t Fall for Tech TINA! If You Can Cheat an Algorithm, Then Why Not? Work for Free for Oxfam, but Make Facebook Pay! Don’t Fight the Last War! Concluding Comments

9. Making a Very Human Digital Age

Welcoming a Social Age

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