[eBook Code] Monster (eBook Code, 1st)

1. Have we created a monster? 1

Can we tame the beast? 9

2. Machines 15

Welcome to the web 18

Entangled in the dark: Quantum computing powers up 20

Speed makes it harder to drive 22

Big Brother was an amateur 25

From MAD to MADD 26

3. Capital 31

Income return, growth, and I dream of Gini 34

Surveillance capitalism and the digital oligarchs 38

Data, privacy, and the health of nations 40

Belt, road, and surveillance communism 43

Tribes and borders in cyberspace 46

Power shifts from the G7 to the D7 48

Intermission: Sunflower: When tech meets capital

4. Psychology 59

Digital fentanyl 62

Your 70,000-year-old operating system is melting 65

Who are you again? Identity in the digital age 70

The singularity is near. Unfortunately 73

5. Society 77

Modern Luddites and the growing techlash 80

Lessons from the rearview mirror 82

War has already been declared 85

6. A manifesto for taming the Monster 89

I. Co-author new rules of the road 92

II. Govern technology by community 95

III. Apply the Golden Rule in cyberspace 97

IV. Accept your role as part of the solution 98

V. Don’t give up on loving tech 101

VI. Treat your data like your reputation 103

VII. Fight against the relentless brain hacks 105

VIII. Modernize the authority over technology and capital 109

7. Off? 113

8. Postface: A story (as old as time) about the future 131

Notes 135

Acknowledgments 143

About the Authors 145

Index 147