The Digital Era 3

For 200 years, industry mastered iron, fire, strength and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects, integrating chips everywhere: computers, phones, keys, games, household appliances, etc. Data, software and calculation frame the conduct of men and the administration of things. Everything is translated into data: the figure is king. This third and last volume of the series examines the creative destruction induced by digital, modifying manners and customs, law, society and politics.

I / Questions of society: discretion, transparency and liberties. 1 Return of the Leviathan? 2 On the use of social networks and e-mail 3 myths & utopias: towards a "new society"?   II / Questions of interest: evolution or rupture? 4 Economy: moving into the post-industrial economy 5 A new creative destruction? 6 Digital Innovation & Trusted Society   III / Political questions: does digital have a master? 7 Challenge for public action: to undergo, guide or coerce? 8 A case study: regulating algorithms 9 Digital and reason of State: an impossible equilibrium?   IV / Prospects: a new avatar of technical progress? Magic of progress or end of history? Discrete data, perception and representation of reality; Schizoidism of digital change.