Who Owns the Future?
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781451654967
Copyright date: 2014
First sentence: We're used to treating information as "free"*, but the price we pay for the illusion of "free" is only workable so long as most of the overall economy isn't about information.
Description: Evaluates the negative impact of digital network technologies on the economy and particularly the middle class, citing challenges to employment and personal wealth while exploring the potential of a new information economy.
Table of contents: label: Prelude
title: 1; label: Hello, Hero
title: 1; label: Terms
title: 3; label: Part 1
title: First round.; label: 1
title: Motivation
pagenum: 7; label: 2
title: A simple idea
pagenum: 19; label: First interlude
title: ancient anticipation of the singularity
pagenum: 22; label: Part 2
title: The cybernetic tempest.; label: 3
title: Money as seen through the one computer scientist's eyes
pagenum: 29; label: 4
title: The ad hoc construction of mass dignity
pagenum: 32; label: 5
title: "Siren servers"
pagenum: 53; label: 6
title: The specter of the perfect investment
pagenum: 59; label: 7
title: Some pioneering siren servers
pagenum: 69; label: Second interlude
title: a parody : if life gives you EULAs, make lemonade
pagenum: 79; label: Part 3
title: How this century might unfold, from two points of view.; label: 8
title: From below : mass unemployment events
pagenum: 85; label: 9
title: From above : misusing big data to become ridiculous
pagenum: 107; label: Third interlude
title: modernity conceives the future
pagenum: 123; label: Part 4
title: Markets, energy landscapes, and narcissism.; label: 10
title: Markets and energy landscapes
pagenum: 143; label: 11
title: Narcissism
pagenum: 153; label: Fourth interlude
title: limits are for muggles
pagenum: 157; label: Part 5
title: The contest to be most meta.; label: 12
title: Story lost
pagenum: 165; label: 13
title: Coercion on autopilot : specialized network effects
pagenum: 166; label: 14
title: Obscuring the human element
pagenum: 175; label: 15
title: Story found
pagenum: 179; label: Fifth interlude
title: the wise old man in the clouds
pagenum: 190; label: Part 6
title: Democracy.; label: 16
title: Complaint is not enough
pagenum: 199; label: 17
title: Clout must underlie rights, if rights are to persist
pagenum: 205; label: Sixth interlude
title: the pocket protector in the saffron robe; label: Part 7
title: Ted Nelson.; label: 18
title: First thought, best thought
pagenum: 221; label: Part 8
title: The dirty picture (or, Nuts and bolts) : what a humanistic alternative might be like.; label: 19
title: The project
pagenum: 233; label: 20
title: We need to do better than ad hoc levees
pagenum: 239; label: 21
title: Some first principles
pagenum: 245; label: 22
title: Who will do what?
pagenum: 253; label: 23
title: Big business
pagenum: 265; label: 24
title: How will we earn and spend
pagenum: 269; label: 25
title: Risk
pagenum: 277; label: 26
title: Financial identity
pagenum: 288; label: 27
title: Inclusion
pagenum: 291; label: 28
title: The interface to reality
pagenum: 295; label: 29
title: Creepy
pagenum: 305; label: 30
title: A stab at mitigating creepiness
pagenum: 317; label: Seventh interlude
title: limits are for mortals
pagenum: 325; label: Part 9
title: Transition.; label: 31
title: The transition
pagenum: 335; label: 32
title: Leadership
pagenum: 341; label: Eighth interlude
title: the fate of books
pagenum: 352; label: Conclusion
title: What is to be remembered?
pagenum: 361