Author:
Wheeler, Tom, 1946- author.
ImprintWashington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
Imprint2023
Descriptionxxv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Part I. Our moment in history -- Echoes of the Gilded Age -- This is not the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" -- Closing the open internet -- Part II. You ain't seen nothin' yet! -- The metaverse -- Artificial intelligence -- Part III. Who makes the rules? -- When innovators make the rules : (Guess who benefits?) -- The world's greatest business model -- Where is the watchdog? -- Part IV. Reasserting the public interest -- Designing behavioral expectations -- Privacy by design -- Competition by design -- Truth and trust by design -- Part V. Consequences we control -- Time to make history again.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Hailed by Ken Burns as one of the foremost "explainers" of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler now turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation. In Techlash, he connects the experiences of the late 19th century's industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised. Warning that today is not the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good."-- Provided by publisher.
