Harnessing Disruption

Building the Tech Future Without Breaking Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

316 kr

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A timely and thought-provoking exploration of technological disruption, drawing on history's most transformative innovations—from nuclear power to AI—to offer a vital roadmap for navigating the future of technology.In Harnessing Disruption, Sarah E. Kreps—a national security expert and military veteran—offers a fresh, clear-eyed framework for understanding the social and political dynamics that shape technological change. From nuclear weapons to AI, cryptocurrency, and social media, breakthrough innovations rarely arrive without backlash. Disruption is not collapse. History shows it is part of a recurring pattern.With unmatched insight and authority, Kreps traces a five-stage cycle that technologies follow: emergence, early warnings, crisis, agenda-setting, and institutional response. Drawing on decades of research and real-world policy experience, she argues that disruption is neither inherently dangerous nor inherently self-correcting. Rather, it's a process we can steer, if we learn to see the signs and act decisively.Harnessing Disruption challenges fatalistic narratives that cast AI and other technologies as uncontrollable forces. It makes the case for cautious optimism: that institutions can adapt, societies can recalibrate, and technologies can be governed in ways that protect both innovation and the public good. Timely, incisive, and grounded in both historical precedent and contemporary case studies, this book provides the tools for anyone, including policymakers, entrepreneurs, and citizens, to understand where we are in the cycle of disruption and how to shape what comes next.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-05
Mått:164 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:376 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197803769

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Sarah E. Kreps is the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technology, national security, and public policy, and is the subject of seven books and dozens of academic and policy articles. She previously served as an officer in the United States Air Force, where she worked in the area of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

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Sarah Kreps has written an absolute gem on the way emerging technologies reshape the world, arising to solve urgent problems while then generating problems of their own as poorly understood risks can spiral into crises. Kreps helps us understand everything from crypto to artificial intelligence, and her five-stage framework makes clear the patterns that arise again and again, and the options governments and societies have as they attempt to gain the benefits of emerging technologies while avoiding the downsides. Highly recommend!