The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines

The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines

The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines

The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines

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Overview

The bestselling authors of The Virtual Corporation describe how the rise of AI and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformation.
 
We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are replacing human beings, and online environments are gathering our data and using it to manipulate us. This loss of human autonomy amounts to nothing less than a societal phase change, a fundamental paradigm shift. The same institutions will remain—schools, banks, churches, and corporations—but they will radically change form, obey new rules, and use new tools.
 
William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone go deeply into the enormous implications of these developments. They show why increases in productivity no longer translate into increases in the GDP and how zero cost, one-to-many communications have been turned into tools for cybercrime and propaganda. Many of the book’s recommendations—such as using taxes to control irresponsible internet behavior and enabling people to put their data into what are essentially virtual personal information “safety deposit boxes”—are bold and visionary, but we must figure out how we will deal with these emerging challenges now, before the Autonomous Revolution overcomes us.
 
“Lots of books talk about what’s happening. This book talks about the why behind the what. It will transform your view of the future.”  —Geoffrey Moore, bestselling author of Crossing the Chasm
 
“A provocative work combining historical inquiry, present-day technology crises, and possible future solutions.”—Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523087631
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 04/14/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 339,326
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

William Davidow was Intel’s senior vice president of marketing and sales, where he is credited with inventing modern high-tech marketing. He cofounded the venture capital firm Mohr Davidow in 1985. He is the author of three books and the coauthor of two, including The Virtual Corporation, which sold more than 100,000 copies.



Michael S. Malone covered the technology beat for the San Jose Mercury News in the 1980s and remains one of world’s best-known technology-business journalists. He is the author or coauthor of nearly thirty books, including The Virtual Corporation with William Davidow. He is currently dean’s executive professor at Santa Clara University.

Bill Davidow has been a high-technology industry executive and a venture capital investor for more than thirty years, having worked at managerial positions at Intel Corp., Hewlett Packard and General Electric. He is now an active advisor to Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm. An electrical engineer by training, he has earned degrees at Dartmouth College, the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University and is the author of Marketing High Technology and a co-author of Total Customer Service and The Virtual Corporation.

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