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After the Digital Tornado: Networks, Algorithms, Humanity

After the Digital Tornado: Networks, Algorithms, Humanity

Author: Kevin Werbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108426633

Published In: July 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781108445351

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Networks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends—Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society—are manifestations of this phenomenon. The internet, which once seemed an unambiguous benefit to society, is now the basis for invasions of privacy, massive concentrations of power, and wide-scale manipulation. The algorithmic networked world poses deep questions about power, freedom, fairness, and human agency. The influential 1997 Federal Communications Commission whitepaper “Digital Tornado” hailed the “endless spiral of connectivity” that would transform society, and today, little remains untouched by digital connectivity. Yet fundamental questions remain unresolved, and even more serious challenges have emerged.

This important collection, which offers a reckoning and a foretelling, features leading technology scholars who explain the legal, business, ethical, technical, and public policy challenges of building pervasive networks and algorithms for the benefit of humanity.

Presents a coherent framework for understanding diverse issues relating to law, policy, and ethics of emerging technology
Features parts of the original 1997 “Digital Tornado” paper that provides insightful historical context for today's challenges

Introduction. An endless spiral of connectivity?

Prelude

Digital Tornado: The internet and telecommunication policy

Kevin Werbach

I. Networks:

1. The regulated end of internet law, and the return to computer and information law?

Christopher T. Marsden

2. Networks, standards, and network-and-standard-based governance

Julie E. Cohen

3. Tech dominance and the policeman at the elbow

Tim Wu

II. Algorithms: