Jasper asks jamie whether there was a turning point in the last 20 years for things to have gone very differently. And which decision on the part of a government and b, the te es could have made things go different. Jamie: I think what we are faced with is a sort of generational problem in the way that we think about technology. The market individualist mind set, i think, became intrenched. We're going to have to unlearn a lot of the things that that generation took for granted as being a naturally good thing.
Trolling, conspiracy theories, racist algorithms, cyberwarfare – every day our headlines are ablaze with negative stories about the internet. The problem? The unaccountable power of the big tech companies. That’s the view of bestselling author and barrister Jamie Susskind. His new book is The Digital Republic, which sets out his vision for a different type of society in which humans can take power back and reshape the digital world into a space where we can all flourish. Joining Jamie in conversation is another writer and strategic advisor working where culture and technology meet, Nina Schick, author of Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse.
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