Date 02 October 2019
Pages 296
Format cm 14 x 22
Price € 19.00
EAN 9782213712932
Publisher Website www.fayard.fr

A Relentless and Gentle Power

Publisher Fayard
GENRE Essay
Keywords Technology
Could technology be the "powerful and gentle" despot by which Tocqueville saw democracy disappear?

This book endeavors to answer a simple question: the industrial revolution brought us wealth and democracy, but what is the digital revolution bringing us? Its effects may very well run as deep as its 19th century ancestor: a more flexible, more creative economy, while universal communication revitalizes democracy. While the picture it paints is very appealing, there is more to it than meets the eye. Because the digital universe is a radically inegalitarian economy. Moreover, it is inexorably undemocratic.