Next Civilization: Digital Democracy and Socio-Ecological Finance - How to Avoid Dystopia and Upgrade Society by Digital Means
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Digital Society -- 1.1 Living in the Age of "Big Data" -- 1.2 Data Sets Bigger Than the Largest Library -- 1.3 Will a Digital Revolution Solve Our Problems? -- 1.4 Big Data Gold Rush for the Twenty-First Century's Oil -- 1.5 Will Artificial Intelligence Overtake Us? -- 1.6 When Big Data Starts to Steer Our Lives -- 1.7 The Cybernetic Society -- 1.8 Wise Kings and Benevolent Dictators, Fueled by Big Data -- 1.9 Do We Need to Sacrifice Our Personal Freedom? -- 1.10 Who Will Rule the World? -- 1.11 Two Scenarios: Coercion or Freedom -- 1.12 A Better Future Ahead of Us -- 1.13 On the Way to a Smarter Digital Society -- References -- 2 Complexity Time Bomb -- 2.1 Phantom Traffic Jams -- 2.2 Recessions-Traffic Jams in the World Economy? -- 2.3 Systemic Instability -- 2.4 Beware of Strongly Coupled Systems! -- 2.5 Cascading Effects in Complex Networks -- 2.6 Large-Scale Power Blackouts -- 2.7 From Bankruptcy Cascades to Financial Crisis -- 2.8 A World Economic Crisis Results -- 2.9 Fundamental ("Radical") Uncertainty -- 2.10 Explosive Epidemics -- 2.11 Systemic Interdependence -- 2.12 Have Humans Created a "Complexity Time Bomb"? -- 2.13 Unintended Wars and Revolutions -- 2.14 Revolutionary Systemic Shifts -- 2.15 Conclusion -- 2.16 Appendix 1: How Harmless Behavior Can Become Critical -- 2.17 Appendix 2: Loss of Synchronization in Hierarchical Systems -- References -- 3 Social Forces -- 3.1 Measuring the World 2.0 -- 3.2 Monitoring the Flu and Other Diseases -- 3.3 Flu Prediction Better Than Google -- 3.4 Creating a Planetary Nervous System as a Citizen Web -- 3.5 Sociophysics: Revealing the Hidden Forces Governing Our Society -- 3.6 Social Forces Between Pedestrians -- 3.7 Self-Organization of Unidirectional Lanes in Pedestrian Counter-Flows.