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The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Maybe someday
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Readers
26/100Critics
10/100Scholars
93/100Author:
Jamie Susskind
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
July 5, 2022
A guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?
What The Reviewers Say
... a welcome arrival on the scene.
Susskind’s remarkably comprehensive book explores the challenges new digital technologies create, asking what the power and potential of digital systems means for human liberty, democracy, justice, and politics. Most importantly, he argues that the political ideas we have held for centuries are ill-equipped to respond to the challenges posed by current and future technological innovations.
... offers a blueprint for the regulation of digital technology...It is an ambitious goal, and the book suffers from the scale of the task it sets itself. Since technology is now intertwined with just about every aspect of society, it is hard to get a grip on what exactly the object of this regulation is, other than, well, everything. Consequently, for a book that seeks to address systemic problems, The Digital Republic has a rather piecemeal and slippery quality which makes it hard for the reader to get a grip on it.
Everyone talks about the dangers, but almost no one is suggesting what to do about them. That makes The Digital Republic, by the British lawyer and academic Jamie Susskind, a welcome arrival. Susskind does an excellent job of diagnosing the problems and offers an array of well-constructed solutions, though some are more practical than others.
