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Monster

A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future
1. Aufl.

von: Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring
16,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	03.03.2021
ISBN/EAN:	9781119785934
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	176

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Titelbeschreibung

"In their 'deliberately short book' IT analysts, management consultants and technology practitioners Roehrig and Pring explore how big a beast technology has become, and how we can tame it to maintain our freedom and privacy while still realising its benefits. The pandemic has shown just how much we rely on technology and how addictive it has become…The authors address the important questions…[and] urge us not to slay the monster but rather to leverage its power and reorient technology as a tool for good." —Financial Times Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts. The authors, insiders at one of the world's largest tech consulting firms, give a unique take on: <ul> <li>The addictive nature of tech and how to fight it</li> <li>The growing backlash against big tech--where it's right and what it misses</li> <li>Crucial steps for taming technology's role in your life and in your organization--without becoming a modern Luddite</li> </ul> Written for managers, leaders, and employees at companies of all sizes and in all industries, Monster will help you understand and take control of technology's powerful role in your life and your organization. "You must read this book." —Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School Initiative on the Digital Economy "Pithy insights and recommendations on helping tech fulfill its potential as a force for good." —Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and co-author of The Second Machine Age "Making technology serve—not subvert—the public interest requires better leaders, not more engineers and coders. Monster explains how to become one of those leaders." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Think Outside the Building "A bracing new book about some of the most pressing questions of our time." —Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at Oxford University and author of The Technology Trap "Provocative and concise, Monster is an important book on rescuing ourselves from technology that now feels corrosive and overwhelming." —Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN, DRIVE, and TO SELL IS HUMAN "Clarifies a complex web of issues and provides bold steps for a healthier economy, society, and future." —Francisco D'Souza, former CEO and Vice Chairman of Cognizant "Sheds light on how we can collectively use technology for the good of all." —Soumitra Dutta, Founding Dean, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University "A cornucopia of pragmatic, actionable, and bold ideas." —Gary J. Beach, Publisher Emeritus, CIO magazine and author of U.S. Technology Skills Gap

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Autorenportrait

PAUL ROEHRIG, PhD, is the global head of strategy for Cognizant Digital Business & Technology. Previously he co-founded the Center for the Future of Work. BEN PRING is the director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. In 2018 he was a Bilderberg Meeting participant and in 2020 was named one of world’s top management thinkers by Thinkers 50. Ben and Paul, along with Malcolm Frank, co-authored What To Do When Machines Do Everything and Code Halos.

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Praise for MONSTER “A bracing new book about some of the most pressing questions of our time.” —Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at Oxford University and author of The Technology Trap “Pithy insights and recommendations on helping tech fulfill its potential as a force for good.” —Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and co-author of The Second Machine Age “Provocative and concise, Monster is an important book on rescuing ourselves from technology that now feels corrosive and overwhelming.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN, DRIVE, and TO SELL IS HUMAN “Sheds light on how we can collectively use technology for the good of all.” —Soumitra Dutta, Founding Dean, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University “Clarifies a complex web of issues and provides bold steps for a healthier economy, society, and future.” —Francisco D’Souza, former CEO and Vice Chairman of Cognizant “A cornucopia of pragmatic, actionable, and bold ideas.” —Gary J. Beach, Publisher Emeritus, CIO magazine and author of U.S. Technology Skills Gap “You must read this book.” —Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School Initiative on the Digital Economy