Beschreibung:
While AI, robots, bio-technologies and digital media are transforming work, culture and social life, there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and significance of this change. This new interpretation of the 'great transformation' uses history and evolutionary theory to highlight the momentous shift in human consciousness taking place. This book will appeal to educators, social scientists, policy-makers, business leaders and students. It concludes with social design principles that can inform deliberative processes and new social arrangements that ensure everyone benefits from the affordances of the new and emerging technologies.
Introduction 1. Freedom and Determinism: Alpha Go, AI Financial Trading and Japan's Mika Diva 2. What is Happening? : The First Axial Age 3. Changing Our Minds: The Techno-Axial Age 4. Crisis and Learning from the past: Three economic crises, 1890-2008 5. Recursivity in Times of Crisis: A Heuristic 6. Data is the New Oil: Leadership and Political Rhetoric in the Techno-Axial Age 7. What experts say about Artificial Intelligence 8. Social design for the new Techno-Axial Age Conclusion