Friday 11 May 2018

07:45

Jamie Bartlett

The people vs. tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it)

News today is rife with stories about ‘big tech’, Russian hackers and Facebook’s growing role in politics – much of it well-trodden and repetitive – but underneath it all is a simple truth: digital technology and our democracy are incompatible. We must reform democracy and rein in digital disruption within the next twenty years or risk losing democracy for good.

In his latest book, Jamie Bartlett offers twenty bold, radical proposals on how to do this and reveals a comprehensive and often shocking roadmap of where democracy is heading: a techno-dystopia where freedom is traded for security and efficiency. Examining six ‘pillars’ of democracy he vividly illustrates how each is under threat from big data, AI, connectivity and smartphone addiction.

Jamie Bartlett

Jamie is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank, Demos.

He is also the author of bestsellers The Dark Net and Radicals: Outsiders changing the world. He writes for the Spectator and several other publications on technology, politics and society. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley.

Jamie Bartlett presents "a provocative report on the 'looming dystopia' of the digital revolution and its effects on democracy."

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Jamie Bartlett

Jamie is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank, Demos.

He is also the author of bestsellers The Dark Net and Radicals: Outsiders changing the world. He writes for the Spectator and several other publications on technology, politics and society. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley.

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