ISBN:
9780691222264
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (192 p.)
Edition:
2021
Uniform Title:
Il faut dire que les temps ont changé
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Information society
;
Social change History 20th century
;
Social change History 21st century
;
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise
;
Albert Hirschman
;
Andrew McAfee
;
Barry Eichengreen
;
Barry Goldwater
;
Bob Dylan
;
Cultural Revolution
;
Das Kapital
;
Eric Brynjolfsson
;
Foucault
;
French Communist Party
;
Herbert Marcuse
;
Jacques Lacan
;
Jean Baudrillard
;
Karl Marx
;
Levi-Strauss
;
Love-in
;
May '68
;
Paul Krugman
;
Ronald Reagan
;
Sartre
;
Sigmund Freud
;
The Conscience of a Liberal
;
The Populist Temptation
;
The Second Machine Age
;
bourgeois society
;
capitalism
;
conservative revolution
;
deindustrialization
;
populist explosion
;
proletariat
;
the sixties
;
youth protest
Abstract:
How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. Industrial society did collapse, and a digital economy has risen to take its place, yet many are left feeling marginalized and deprived of the possibility of a better life. The Inglorious Years explores the many ways we have been let down by the rising tide of technology, showing how our new interconnectivity is not fulfilling its promise.In this revelatory book, economist Daniel Cohen describes how today's postindustrial society is transforming us all into sequences of data that can be manipulated by algorithms from anywhere on the planet. As yesterday's assembly line was replaced by working online, the leftist protests of the 1960s have given way to angry protests by the populist right. Cohen demonstrates how the digital economy creates the same mix of promises and disappointments as the old industrial order, and how it revives questions about society that are as relevant to us today as they were to the ancients.Brilliant and provocative, The Inglorious Years discusses what the new digital society holds in store for us, and reveals how can we once again regain control of our lives.
Note:
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DOI:
10.1515/9780691222264
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691222264
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691222264
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