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A revelatory take on where technology is taking us, from one of the worlds most-followed tech writers. We are entering the Exponential Age. Between faster computers, better software and bigger data, ours is the first era in human history in which technology is constantly accelerating. The author understands this shift better than anyone. Technology, he argues, is developing at an increasing, exponential rate. But human society - from our businesses to our political institutions - can only ever adapt at a slower, incremental pace. The result is an 'exponential gap', between the power of new technology and our ability to keep up. The author shows how this exponential gap can explain our society's most pressing problems - from established businesses' difficulty keeping up with digital platforms, to the sclerotic response of liberal democracies to fast-moving social problems. And he draws on cutting-edge social science to explain how to stop the exponential gap eroding our economies, our politics and our lives. Exponential technology is upending our society. This book explains how.

TECHNOLOGY--SOCIAL ASPECTS --- TECHNOLOGY--POLITICAL ASPECTS --- TECHNOLOGY--ECONOMIC ASPECTS

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East-West trade. --- Technology transfer

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EAST-WEST TRADE (1945- ) --- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER--USA --- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER--USSR --- USA--NATIONAL SECURITY --- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER--EUROPE

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An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died today. Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern world--uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet's continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology. Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the "internet" has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet's organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature. Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.

Internet --- Artificial intelligence --- Technology --- Technology and civilization --- History --- History. --- Social aspects --- INTERNET--HISTORY --- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE--HISTORY --- TECHNOLOGY--SOCIAL ASPECTS

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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT --- VIOLENCE--PREVENTION --- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY