Expanded Table of Contents

  • Prologue

  • I. Digital dreams
    • 1. Knowledge
      • Pioneer: J.C.R. Licklider
      • Dream: Wikipedia: a free, ever-expanding online encyclopedia
      • Pioneers: Seymour Papert and Mitchel Resnick
      • Pioneer: Alan Kay
      • Dream: Intelligent electronic tutors
      • Dream: Global learning communities  
    • 2. Health
      • Dream: Electronic medical records
      • Pioneer: Lawrence Weed
      • Dream: Online health experience sharing communities
      • Dream: Reuniting families
      • Dream: Precision medicine for family planning
      • Dream: Robot companions for seniors
    • 3. Free speech, creativity, and collaboration
      • Dream: Free speech on the internet
      • Pioneer: Ivan Sutherland
      • Dream: Enhanced creativity for design and the visual arts
      • Pioneer: Doug Engelbart
      • Dream: Enhanced abilities for collaboration               
    • 4. Commerce and community
      • Pioneers: Vannevar Bush and Sir Tim Berners-Lee
      • Dream: E-commerce
      • Dream: Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
      • Dream: An alternative to hotels
      • Dream: Political mobilization via the internet
    • 5. Power and convenience
      • Dream: Very personal computers
      • Pioneer: Steve Jobs
      • Dream: Easy and insightful financial management
      • Dream: Digital voice assistants
      • Dream: Self-driving cars
      • Dream: Robots at work after natural disasters   
      • Dream: Predicting the weather and natural disasters

  • II. Digital nightmares
    • 6. Injustice
      • Nightmare: Cyberbullying
      • Nightmare: Digital disenfranchisement
      • Nightmare: Geek speak
      • Nightmare: Impoverished musicians
    • 7. Disinformation
      • Nightmare: Censorship and shutdowns of the internet
      • Nightmare: Hate speech
      • Nightmare: Fake news
      • Nightmare: Misinformation about the Coronavirus
    • 8. Loss of privacy
      • Nightmare: Data breaches
      • Nightmare: Identity theft
      • Nightmare: Surveillance by Big Brother
      • Nightmare: Surveillance capitalism by the Big Other
      • Nightmare: Self-surveillance: Your past cannot be forgotten
    • 9. Unemployment
      • Nightmare: AI résumé screening and interviewing
      • Nightmare: Gig economy disruptions
      • Nightmare: Robot doctors before their time
      • Nightmare: Massively fewer jobs
    • 10. Helplessness
      • Nightmare: No tech support number to call
      • Nightmare: Computer addiction
      • Nightmare: Workaholism
      • Nightmare: A radiation therapy machine that kills
      • Pioneers: Norbert Wiener and Joe Weizenbaum
      • Nightmare: An airplane with a mind of its own
      • Nightmare: Election hacking
      • Nightmare: Cyberterrorism via ransomware
    • 11. Monopolies
      • Nightmare: A social media monopoly
      • Nightmare: A search monopoly
      • Nightmare: An e-commerce monopoly
      • Nightmare: Tech firm growth via acquisition
    • 12. Risky AI (artificial intelligence)
      • Nightmare: Machines masquerading as humans
      • Nightmare: The uncanny valley and deep fakes
      • Nightmare: AI algorithms making serious mistakes
      • Nightmare: Inscrutable software
      • Nightmare: Unjust decisions by algorithms
      • Nightmare: No responsibility or accountability for algorithmic actions

  • III. Actions
    • 13. Avoid tech addiction and intimidation
      • Dream: Respites from technology
      • Dream: Technological self-confidence
    • 14. Make Computer Science ethical
      • Dream: Harvard’s Embedded EthiCS program
      • Pioneer: Batya Friedman
      • Dream: Value sensitive design
      • Dream: Employees at Google speak up
      • Dream: Conscientious objection and whistle blowing in tech
      • Dream: Accreditation and licensing of computer science
    • 15. Citizens, speak out on technology
      • Dream: Achieving digital inclusion
      • Dream: Ethical digital contact tracing for pandemics
      • Dream: Citizen involvement in technology for their cities
      • Dream: Minimizing the technological energy footprint
      • Dream: The Universal Basic Income
    • 16. Tame the Big Tech juggernaut
      • Dream: Digital technologists in public office
      • Dream: The GDPR
      • Dream: Effective antitrust actions versus big tech
      • Dream: A vigorous competitive tech industry landscape
    • 17. Do not use Risky AI
      • Dream: Honest algorithms
      • Dream: Software that can explain “why?”
      • Dream: Fair use of facial recognition software
      • Dream: Trustworthy AI
      • Dream: Capable robot caregivers for seniors
      • Dream: Autonomous weapons under strict controls  
                     
  • Epilogue

  • Further reading
  • The history of digital
  • Pioneers: Charles Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace
  • Pioneer: Alan Turing
  • A primer on ethics
  • Questions for thinking and discussion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the author
  • Expanded Table of Contents
  • Index