Homo numericus the coming 'civilization'

"From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce costs by forgoing face-to-face interactions, and it was a direct result of the free-market shock of the 1980s, which...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cohen, Daniel, 1953- autor (autor), Rendall, Steven, traductor (traductor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Polity [2024]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Digital Illusion
  • Ch. 1: Body and mind
  • Terminator
  • Reason and emotions
  • Descartes' 'error'
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Ch. 2 : Stultify and punish
  • Wild thought
  • Surveillance capitalism
  • Ch. 3: Waiting for the robots
  • The death of kings
  • The industrialization of services
  • The thinking robot
  • The stake of the century
  • Ch. 4: Political anomie
  • Impoverishing growth
  • Working-Class suicide
  • A political revolution
  • Vox populi
  • Part II: The Return to reality
  • : h. 5: Social ties
  • The law of 150 friends
  • Bonobos and chimpanzees
  • Four possible societies
  • The secular age
  • The triumph of endogamy
  • The postmodern mentality
  • Ch. 6: Winter is coming
  • The crises of the Twenty-First century
  • The climatic clock
  • The society of addiction Ch. 7: In a hundred years
  • The society of abundance
  • Back to science fiction
  • By way of conclusion.