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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE - Solutionism and Its Discontents
The Will to Improve (Just About Everything!)
Kooks and Cooks
Pasteur and Zynga
CHAPTER TWO - The Nonsense of “the Internet”—and How to Stop It
Against the Internet Grain
The Faux Didacticism of “the Internet”
If Internet Theorists Were Bouncers
Of Epochs and Epochalisms
With Models Like This . . .
Hype and Consequences
Gutenberg in the Kingdom of Geekistan
From Bad Book History to Bad Blog History
Recycle the Cycle
CHAPTER THREE - So Open It Hurts
Bad for the Databases, Good for Democracy?
Escaping the Double Click
From Sunburn to Solar Power
When Transparency Hurts
The Perils of Information Reductionism
Openness and Its Messiahs
Who Put “Open” in “Open Government”?
CHAPTER FOUR - How to Break Politics by Fixing It
Future Perfect—Democracy Isn’t
Go to the iTunes of Politics to Download Your Welfare
Learning to Love the Imperfections
In Truth We Trust?
Networks, Leaders, Hierarchies
Technoescapists versus Technorationalists
Technocrats and Their Limits
CHAPTER FIVE - The Perils of Algorithmic Gatekeeping
Drowning in the Algorithmic Sea
The Meme Industry Will Make You Famous
Surviving Big Data
“Down with the Gatekeepers!” . . . Say the Gatekeepers
The Rise of Uncritical Critics
CHAPTER SIX - Less Crime, More Punishment
You’ve Been Arrested—by Facebook
Why You Should Ride the Metro in Berlin
Autotopia in Jeopardy
Wither Moral Citizenship?
The Perils of Preemption
Bouncers Versus Vibes
Against Technological Defeatism
Of Norms and Noises
CHAPTER SEVEN - Galton’s iPhone
Seeing Like a Self
The Ryanairation of Privacy
The Great Unraveling
Between Nietzsche and Condorcet
From Nutritionism to Educationism
The Imperialism of Numbers
When Facts Are Made of Water
Hunches and Fractured Pelvises
CHAPTER EIGHT - The Superhuman Condition
Madeleine: There’s an App for That!
The Nutritional Aspects of Jerry Springer
Phantoms and Backpacks
False and Imaginary Cosmopolitanisms
Gamify or Die
B. F. Skinner Among the Unfinished Animals
Monkeys, Sex, and Predictable Duress
Don’t Fold It at Home
Mad Men, Faded Denims, and Real Phonies
CHAPTER NINE - Smart Gadgets, Dumb Humans
Victorian Trains and Montana Huts
Radios, Caterpillars, and Lamps
The Natural Fuse and Its Adversaries
Can Content Farms Be Organic?
The Perils of Willpower
On Frictionless Traps
Technologies and Truths
Postscript
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright Page
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