Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data - Hardcover

Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor; Ramge, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 046509368X ISBN 13: 9780465093687

Publisher: Basic Books, 2018

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things: think Uber instead of Ford, or Airbnb instead of Hyatt.
This is the dawn of the era of data capitalism. Will it be an age of prosperity or of calamity? This book provides the indispensable roadmap for securing a better future.

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Review

"An unnerving yet plausible portrait of a future in which 'finance capitalism will be as old-fashioned as Flower Power.'"--Kirkus

"In the past 20 years, the big platform players of the digital economy have reaped huge profits. This book explains how we can turn data-richness into a win for everyone in society. A must-read for all who believe in competition and fair distribution of wealth."--Don Tapscott, author of The Digital Economy, Wikinomics, and Blockchain-Revolution

"That data are a valuable resource is widely recognized. But ideas on how best to organize a data economy are far and few between. This book offers plenty of food for thought."--Ludwig Siegele, Technology Editor of The Economist

"Digitalization is challenging us to re-think the future of our economy. This thought-provoking book provides excellent insights and guidance."--Henning Kagermann, former CEO of SAP and President of Acatech at the National Academy of Science and Engineering

"It's vogue today to proclaim the 'death of capitalism'--and yet the one truly global system is going through profound reinvention as a combination of technological forces reshape every aspect of our economic, political and social lives. This book is an absolutely essential guide to our collective digital future and equally importantly, a sensible manifesto to shape it for everyone's benefit."--Parag Khanna, author of Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization and Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State

"This refreshingly optimistic book, full of fascinating examples, shows how the digital age can lead to a future of data-rich markets that empower individuals and improve our lives in a diverse and inclusive society."--Urs Gasser, professor and executive director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard

"For a generation, information technology has progressively driven down transaction-costs and displaced a universal tradeoff between richness and reach. This landmark book takes that logic to an entirely new plane, where the richness of data merges with the open and unbounded reach of markets. The possibility of data-rich markets is a vision that should challenge and inspire every corporate strategist and public policy maker."--Philip Evans, Senior Advisor at The Boston Consulting Group and BCG Fellow

"Reinventing Capitalism is a stunning and extremely provocative sketch of a world where data flows replace money flows and where data becomes a new kind of currency and provokes a new kind of capitalism. I highly recommend this astounding book that will help us all reimagine what capitalism could become in our new, data centric, AI based world."--John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp; Former Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); and Co-author of Design Unbound

"A welcoming and comprehensible narrative featuring interesting profiles of key personalities driving the Big Data revolution...The future marketplace of goods, services, and ideas will benefit from a wide readership of this instructive study."--Booklist

"A thoughtful volume about the digital and data-driven future...Emphasizes the human choices and market and societal opportunities that data will enable."--Forbes

Book Description

A provocative look at how data is reinventing markets and, in so doing, is ushering in an era where the firm is no longer predominant

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 046509368X
• ISBN 13: 9780465093687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288