How To Be Human In The Digital Economy

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Taking the Long View of Digital Revolution
	The Threat to Human Agency
	We Should Avoid a Present Bias about Computers and a Belief in Human Exceptionalism
	Forward to a Social-Digital Future
	A Note on Philosophical Method
	An Outline of the Book
1. Is the Digital Revolution the Next Big Thing?
	Will the Digital Revolution Fizzle?
	The Magic Combination of Artificial Intelligence and Data
	How AI Could Transform Transportation
	How AI Could Transform Health
	Concluding Comments
2. AI’s Split Personality—Minds or Mind Workers?
	Philosophical and Pragmatic Interests in Machine Minds: A Focus on Making Minds or on Doing Mind Work
	The Difference between Authentic and Ersatz Minds
	Hyperactive Agency Detectors and Human-Like Machines
	A Moral Reason to Avoid Creating Machines with Minds
	Concluding Comments
3. Data as a New Form of Wealth
	How Could Data Be Wealth?
	Unfairness and the New Forms of Wealth
	Does Data Want to Be Free?
	Do unto Facebook and Google … Micropayments for the Use of Our Data?
	Concluding Comments
4. Can Work Be a Norm for Humans in the Digital Age?
	Searching for Work that Is Both Productive and Therapeutic in the Digital Age
	The Inductive Optimism of the Economists
	The Protean Powers of the Digital Package
	Will Humans Always Control the Last Mile of Choice?
	A Conjecture about the Labor Market of the Digital Age
	Gaining Philosophical Perspective on the Dispute between Optimists and Pessimists
	Concluding Comments
5. Caring about the Feelings of Lovers and Baristas
	What Is It Like to Love a Robot?
	From Romantic to Work Relationships
	What Counts as a Social Job?
	Can I Justify My Pro-Human Bias?
	Concluding Comments
6. Features of the Social Economy in the Digital Age
	Two Economies for the Digital Age
	Some Noteworthy Differences between Social and Digital Goods
	The Ambiguous Digital Futures of Sales Assistants
	The Different Digital Age Futures of Uber and Airbnb
	Space Exploration as Social Work
	Concluding Comments
7. A Tempered Optimism about the Digital Age
	The Different Logic of Predictions and Ideals
	We Should Prefer Robust Ideals
	The Social-Digital Economy versus the Collaborative Commons
	The Social-Digital Economy versus a Jobless Future with a Universal Basic Income
	The UBI as an Inadequate Response to Inequality in the Digital Age
	An Expanded Basic Income?
	Concluding Comments
8. Machine Breaking for the Digital Age
	See through the Digital Halo Effect!
	Don’t Fall for Tech TINA!
	If You Can Cheat an Algorithm, Then Why Not?
	Work for Free for Oxfam, but Make Facebook Pay!
	Don’t Fight the Last War!
	Concluding Comments
9. Making a Very Human Digital Age
	Welcoming a Social Age
Notes
	Introduction: Taking the Long View of Digital Revolution
	Chapter 1: Is the Digital Revolution the Next Big Thing?
	Chapter 2: AI’s Split Personality—Minds or Mind Workers?
	Chapter 3: Data as a New Form of Wealth
	Chapter 4: Can Work Be a Norm for Humans in the Digital Age?
	Chapter 5: Caring about the Feelings of Lovers and Baristas
	Chapter 6: Features of the Social Economy in the Digital Age
	Chapter 7: A Tempered Optimism about the Digital Age
	Chapter 8: Machine Breaking for the Digital Age
	Chapter 9: Making a Very Human Digital Age
Index