TY - BOOK AU - Keen,Andrew TI - Tomorrows vs yesterdays: conversations in defense of the future SN - 9781838951122 U1 - 303.483 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Atlantic Books KW - Information society KW - Technological innovations KW - Political science KW - Internet KW - Social prediction N1 - The crisis. Shoshana Zuboff -- John Borthwick -- Maria Ressa -- Rana Foroohar -- Waking up from Utopia. David Kirkpatrick -- Douglas Rushkoff -- Eli Pariser -- Kenneth Cukier -- Peter Sunde -- Democracy and its digital discontent. Peter Pomerantsev -- Ece Temelkuran -- Catherine Fieschi -- Ian Bremmer -- Martin Wolf -- Fixing the future. Richard Stengel -- Carl Benedikt Frey -- Toomas Ilves -- Scott Galloway N2 - The current crisis of democracy, the growing economic inequality between rich and poor, our narcissistic social media culture and the looming menace of AI all threaten us as never before. The challenges presented by technology have long been central in these issues, but how can we take advantage of the opportunities it provides to shape a better twenty-first century? ER -