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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. 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
