Techlash : who makes the rules in the digital gilded age? / Tom Wheeler

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheeler, Tom, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Technology--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

xxv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Who makes the rules in the digital gilded age?

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2023

Summary:

Hailed by Ken Burns as one of the foremost "explainers" of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler now turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation. In Techlash, he connects the experiences of the late 19th century's industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised. Warning that today is not the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Part I : Our moment in history

Chapter 1 : Echoes of the Gilded Age

Chapter 2 : This is not the "Fourth Industrial Revolution"

Chapter 3 : Closing the open internet

Part II : You ain't seen nothin' yet!

Chapter 4 : The metaverse

Chapter 5 : Artificial intelligence

Part III : Who makes the rules?

Chapter 6 : When innovators make the rules : (Guess who benefits?)

Chapter 7 : The world's greatest business model

Chapter 8 : Where is the watchdog?

Part IV : Reasserting the public interest

Chapter 9 : Designing behavioral expectations

Chapter 10 : Privacy by design

Chapter 11 : Competition by design

Chapter 12 : Truth and trust by design

Part V : Consequences we control

Chapter 13 : Time to make history again.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-217) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0815739931

9780815739937

OCLC:

1370219016