Technocapitalism
the rise of the new robber barons and the fight for the common good
- ISBN: 9781911710097
- Editorial: Seven Stories Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 272
- Idiomas: Inglés
The respected Italian economist and journalist offers a bold and provocative argument that the speed of technological transformation is threatening our future. At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, with the money printed electronically to bail out banks, Wall Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists, the Techtitans, who embraced rapid, transformational change while stripping their workers of rights and enriching themselves beyond anybody's wildest imagination; and the Space Barons, who mine new frontiers for precious resources. Then came the gig-economy, another supposed digital equalizer, where everybody was his or her own boss, but it was just another illusion. Tech pioneers like Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, and Microsoft never had any intention of spreading democracy. Those who control and own the technology are the absolute masters. As artificial intelligence enters the labour.
Introduction: life is full of surprises
The cypherpunks
Bitcoin
Crypto world
Non-fungible tokens
Financial meltdown
Modern monetary theory
The rise of the techtitans
The end of the nation state
The video game of finance
Assault on Wall Street
The mythology of carbon credits
The model of infinite economic growth
The space barons
Terraforming
Space economics
