The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines
- 4h 33m
- Michael S. Malone, William H. Davidow
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- 2020
The coauthors of the seminal book The Virtual Corporation describe how the rise of artificial intelligence and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformation--and how we can thrive in this new era.
We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are replacing human beings, and online environments are gathering our data and using it to manipulate us. This loss of human autonomy amounts to nothing less than a societal phase change, a fundamental paradigm shift. The same institutions will remain--schools, banks, churches, and corporations--but they will radically change form, obey new rules, and use new tools.
William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone go deeply into the enormous implications of these developments. They show why increases in productivity no longer translate into increases in the GDP and how zero cost, one-to-many communications have been turned into tools for cybercrime and propaganda. Many of the book's recommendations--such as using taxes to control irresponsible internet behavior and enabling people to put their data into what are essentially virtual personal information "safety deposit boxes"--are bold and visionary, but we must figure out how we will deal with these emerging challenges now, before the Autonomous Revolution overcomes us.
About the Authors
William Davidow was Intel's senior vice president of marketing and sales, where he is credited with inventing modern high-tech marketing. He cofounded the venture capital firm Mohr Davidow in 1985. He is the author of three books and the coauthor of two, including The Virtual Corporation, which sold more than 100,000 copies.
Michael S. Malone covered the technology beat for the San Jose Mercury News in the 1980s and remains one of world's best-known technology-business journalists. He is the author or coauthor of nearly thirty books, including The Virtual Corporation with William Davidow. He is currently dean's executive professor at Santa Clara University.
In this Book
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Foreword
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Introduction—Digital Leviathan
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The Autonomous Revolution—A Third Social Revolution
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A Brief History of Social Phase Changes—Why This Time Things are Different
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Substitutional Equivalences—The Drivers of Societal Phase Change
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Productivity without Prosperity—The Emerging Era of Non-Monetizable Productivity
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Commercial Transformation—Rewriting Business and the Economy
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The Death of the Good Job—The Nature of Work in the Autonomous Revolution
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Liberty and Privacy—Escaping the Algorithmic Prison
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Within the Chimera—Living in a Virtual World
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The Body Politic—Government in the Autonomous Revolution
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Sacred Values—Novi Coeptus
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Notes
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