The New Civilization Upon Data: How Big Data Reshapes Human Civilization, Business And The Personal World

Preface: From Adolescence to Maturity and the Data Revolution in Our Era
	A New Way to Divide Data
	An Unfinished Revolution
	A New Civilization Rising
	A Reliable Road to Success
	A New Concept of Privacy
Preface
Contents
1 Data Equality: The Impact and Original Sin of the New Business Culture
	1.1 As a Civilization Reaches Its Peak, the Fears of Its Collapse Grow More Terrifying
	1.2 Psychological Invasion: The Birth of Big Data “Mindreading”
	1.3 Price Manipulation: Big Data Price Discrimination and Algorithmic Schemes
	1.4 Data’s Deepest Layer: AI’s Three Deadly Sins
	1.5 “Smart Business”: What’s Really “New” About the “New Economy”
	1.6 How Gold Mines Are Created: The Personal Data Value Dilemma
	1.7 Data Rights: The Original Sin of the Internet Emerges
	References
2 De-anonymized Tracking: The Metaphor of Skynet
	2.1 In This World Nothing Can Be Said to Be Certain, Except Death, Taxes, and Data Collection
	2.2 “If It Happened in China, We Would Have Broken the Case Much Earlier”
	2.3 Three-Body: The True Dimensions of Skynet
	2.4 What the Internet Can Learn from Skynet
	2.5 Fog Computing: The Battleground for Artificial Intelligence
	2.6 Using Pictures to Track Cars: Tracking the Trajectory of Hundreds of Millions of Vehicles
	2.7 The Secret to Why External Hard Drives and Eye Drops Sold Out at the Same Time
	References
3 The Face and AI
	3.1 Photographs Are the Key: Building the Identity Society
		3.1.1 Wandering Out of Silicon Valley and into the Geometric Age
	3.2 Can Machines Learn?: The Struggle for Artificial Intelligence
	3.3 “I Don’t Know What It Means, but it Sounds Amazing”: The Rise of Deep Learning
	3.4 Data Track and Field: How the Government Promotes Corporate Innovation
	3.5 Historical Vicissitudes: How 9/11 Saved Facial Recognition
	3.6 A Society with Anonymity: The Prospect of Dynamic Facial Recognition
	References
4 High Definition Society: Granular Governance and a Population in Cages
	4.1 Pattern Recognition: Entering the High Definition Society
	4.2 Don’t Leave it to Luck: The Experience of Governance in Ancient China
	4.3 The Power of the Individual: Everyone Holds a Sword and Everyone Is Held a Swordpoint
	4.4 Data Is Incontrovertible: A World Where Nothing Is Left to Luck
	References
5 The Force of Data: How Universal Recording “Warps” Human Nature
	5.1 In All of Our Science the Pursuit Least Developed but the Most Valuable is the Study of Mankind Itself
	5.2 The Bane of an Emperor’s Existence
	5.3 Edison Broadens the Horizons of Recording
	5.4 Nixon’s Dilemma: A Brief History of White House Sound Recording
	5.5 Trump’s Recording Troubles
	5.6 The Inefficiencies of Live Broadcast
	5.7 Universal Recording: God’s Ultimate Weapon
	References
6 Data Civilization: How Recording Technology Empowers Society, Business, and Individuals
	6.1 Data is the Soil to Grow a New World. If We Hope to Use It, We Must Protect It
	6.2 Recording as a New Perspective on Development
	6.3 The Changing Fate of Chinese Civilization
	6.4 The Fate of Three Books on Three Continents
	6.5 “Computer” Versus “Recorder”: The Secret Code at the Heart of the Advancement of Commercial Civilization
	6.6 Humiliated in an Elevator
	References
7 New Data Governance: Building a Modern National Administrative System
	7.1 The Road to a Better Society is Always Under Construction
	7.2 Digital Foundation: World Class Creativity and Local Problems
	7.3 Networking Data: Holistic Governance in the Data Sphere
	7.4 City Brain: Our Own Era’s Equivalent of Building the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
	7.5 One Time Only: How to Upgrade the System of “One Visit at Most”
	7.6 Open Surveillance: The Future of Skynet
	7.7 Regarding Modern Administration of Data and Algorithms
	References
8 The Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence: Risks and the Future
	8.1 If Human Lives Can Be Predicted with Absolute Accuracy, then We Have Become Machines
	8.2 Universal Prediction and Laplace’s Demon
	8.3 Quantum Thought: The Reality of Uncertainty
	8.4 Human Being Are the City’s Uncertain Elementary Particle
	8.5 Data Relativity: The Limits of Universal Recording
	8.6 Facial Expression Analysis: The Boundaries of AI
	8.7 The Smart Society Transformation
	References
Epilog: The Fourth Wave and How We Retake the Lead
Afterword: Setting Out on the Rugged Trail From Which No Man Has Yet Returned