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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Algorithms and digital platforms have transformed the tech industry.
Chapter 2: Platform models could boost autonomy in business and government.
Chapter 3: Algorithms are restructuring traditional business models by doing the bulk of work themselves.
Chapter 4: In media and finance alike, algorithmic artificial intelligence has gone dangerously out of control in recent years.
Chapter 5: Digital technologies are increasingly replacing or redefining our traditional job infrastructure.
Chapter 6: Technological unemployment can be addressed by reskilling and digitally augmenting workers.
Chapter 7: By updating regulations and mindsets, we can embrace new technology for everyone’s benefit and shared prosperity.
Description
WTF? (2017) documents the recent history and developments of modern digital technologies, and explains why, far from being harmful in and of themselves, these technologies only do damage to business and society when misunderstood by humans. Instead of fearing for the future, we should embrace it and use the attendant technological developments in ways that bring society up rather than push costs down.
Who Should Listen
- Business leaders seeking to understand and implement digital technologies
- Technophobes who want their fears pacified
- People interested in the recent history of technology