Don Tapscott

A science and tech expert reveals how we can make liberal democracies more inclusive-and the digital economy more equitable-in the age of artificial intelligence. Around the world, liberal democracies are in crisis. Citizens have lost faith in their government; right-wing nationalist movements frame the political debate. At the same time, economic inequality is increasing dramatically; digital technologies have created a new class of super-rich entrepreneurs.
Automation threatens to transform the free economy into a zero-sum game in which capital wins and labor loses. But is this digital dystopia inevitable? In Cyber Republic, technology and management expert Geroge Zarkadakis explains how artificial intelligence-together with intelligent robotics, sophisticated sensors, communication networks, and big data-will fundamentally reshape the global economy.
Zarkadakis presents an alternative, outlining a plan for using technology to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable. We need not fear automation, he argues. In a post-work future, intelligent machines can collaborate with humans to achieve the human goals of inclusivity and equality. Cyber Republic is no less than a guide for the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution.