System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

Jeremy Weinstein

ISBN 10: 1529356717 / ISBN 13: 9781529356717

Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 2021

Beschreibung

Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future andreinvigorate democracy along the way. -- Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO ofNetflix A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors whichreveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency hassacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to changecourse, renew our democracy, and save ourselves. In no more than the blink ofan eye, a naive optimism about technology's liberating potential has given wayto a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, andjob-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting theonward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological futuredesigned for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, andthe politicians who give them free rein. It doesn't need to be this way.System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech'srelentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforcesdiscrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes theinformation we get. Armed with an understanding of how technologists think andexercise their power, three Stanford professors - a philosopher working at theintersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama,and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford(also an early Google engineer) - reveal how we can hold that power toaccount. As the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum,they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyoneunderstand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to controltechnology instead of letting it control us.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1529356717
• ISBN-13: 9781529356717
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: As New

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Inhaltsangabe

A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.

In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology's liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein.

It doesn't need to be this way.

System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get.

Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors - a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer) - reveal how we can hold that power to account.

As the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.