"Brilliant and ground-breaking ... It is essential reading for anyone who wants to get to grips with the profound and far-reaching impacts of digital technology on politics." -- Paradigm Explorer"Original and thought-provoking, this ground-breaking book challenges us to develop new policies for new times." - Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2007-2010"This book crackles with ideas, sparking new thoughts with every page. And it is superbly organised, too. It's difficult to help people understand the past, but to help understand the future is a real achievement. Terrific. " - Lord Finkelstein, Associate Editor, The Times"From Arendt to artificial intelligence, from Machiavelli to machine learning, Susskind seamlessly weaves modern technology with classic theory to present a tour de force introduction to the future-explaining with erudition and humor the powerful digital systems that will govern our lives. " - Beth Simone Noveck, Professor in Technology, Culture and Society, New York University Tandon School of Engineering"Only an elite can control the power of computation, dispersed in space, integrated in the cloud, and enabled to operate on ever bigger data. What are the implications for freedom, democracy, and justice? Jamie Susskind offers a pathbreaking exploration of the challenge that these issues pose for our political thinking and practice. It's a must-read. " - Philip Pettit, L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University, and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University"This brilliant and ground-breaking book ... is essential reading for anyone who wants to get to grips with the profound and far-reaching impacts of digital technology on politics." - David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer
"Future Politics' is intelligently written and utterly compelling in its treatment of a subject too often ignored by todayâs politicians and academics." -- Luke Geikie, SF2 Concatenation