Thinking Ahead
Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society
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| Author | Dirk Helbing |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Published | 2015 |
| Pages | 194 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Paper book / ebook (PDF) |
| ISBN-10 | 3319150774 |
| ISBN-13 | 9783319150772 |
The rapidly progressing digital revolution is now touching the foundations of the governance of societal structures. Humans are on the verge of evolving from consumers to prosumers, and old, entrenched theories - in particular sociological and economic ones - are falling prey to these rapid developments. The original assumptions on which they are based are being questioned. Each year we produce as much data as in the entire human history - can we possibly create a global crystal ball to predict our future and to optimally govern our world? Do we need wide-scale surveillance to understand and manage the increasingly complex systems we are constructing, or would bottom-up approaches such as self-regulating systems be a better solution to creating a more innovative, more successful, more resilient, and ultimately happier society? Working at the interface of complexity theory, quantitative sociology and Big Data-driven risk and knowledge management, the author advocates the establishment of new participatory systems in our digital society to enhance coordination, reduce conflict and, above all, reduce the "tragedies of the commons," resulting from the methods now used in political, economic and management decision-making.
- Dirk Helbing
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