Pax Technica by Howard, Philip N. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Introduction 1. Empire of Connected Things

Carna Surveils the Realm What’s in a Pax? The Demographics of Diffusion Information Technology and the New World Order Pax Romana, Britannica, Americana The Balaceras of Monterrey The Internet Is Also a Surveillance State The Wars Only Bots Will Fight The Political Empire of Connected Things

2. Internet Interregnum

Discovering the UglyGorilla Devices of Hope The Demographics of Diffusion The Zapatistas Reboot History From Gold to Bits States Don’t Own It, Though They Fight Hard to Control It A New Kind of New Order But It’s not a Westphalian—or Feudal—World

3. New Maps for the New World

Mapping Hispaniola Dictators and Dirty Networks Mubarak’s Choice We Are All Laila Governments, Bad and Fake The Dictator’s Digital Dilemma Finding Kibera Dirty Networks, Collapsing The Democracy of Devices

4. Five Premises for the Pax Technica

Learning from the Internet Interregnum First Premise: The Internet of Things Is Being Weaponized Second Premise: People Use Devices to Govern Third Premise: Digital Networks Weaken Ideologies Fourth Premise: Social Media Solve Collective Action Problems Fifth Premise: Big Data Backs Human Security Defining the Pax Technica

5. Five Consequences of the Pax Technica

6. Network Competition and the Challenges Ahead

My Girlfriend Went Shopping . . . in China Authoritarian, but Social Bots and Simulations DRM for the Material World? Other Challenges (That Are Lesser Challenges) The Downside of Up Rival Devices on Competing Networks

7. Building a Democracy of Our Own Devices

Your Coffee Betrays You Internet Succession: Computers, Mobiles, Things The World Ahead The Hope and Instability of Hackers and Whistle Blowers Firing the Social Scientists—and Training New Ones Putting the Civic into the Internet of Things, Domestically Device Networks and Foreign Affairs How Can You Thrive in the Pax Technica? The Promise of the Pax

Notes Glossary Acknowledgments Index