How to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable: a guide
for the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution. Around the world liberal democracies are in
crisis. Citizens have lost faith in their government right-wing nationalist movements frame
the political debate. At the same time economic inequality is increasing dramatically digital
technologies have created a new class of super-rich entrepreneurs. Automation threatens to
transform the free economy into a zero-sum game in which capital wins and labor loses. But is
this digital dystopia inevitable? In Cyber Republic George Zarkadakis presents an alternative
outlining a plan for using technology to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the
digital economy more equitable. Cyber Republic is no less than a guide for the coming Fourth
Industrial Revolution. Zarkadakis an expert on technology and management explains how
artificial intelligence together with intelligent robotics sophisticated sensors
communication networks and big data will fundamentally reshape the global economy a new
intelligent machine age will force us to adopt new forms of economic and political
organization. He envisions a future liberal democracy in which intelligent machines facilitate
citizen assemblies helping to extend citizen rights and blockchains and cryptoeconomics
enable new forms of democratic governance and business collaboration. Moreover the same
technologies can be applied to scientific research and technological innovation. We need not
fear automation Zarkadakis argues in a post-work future intelligent machines can collaborate
with humans to achieve the human goals of inclusivity and equality.
