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The Unchosen Path: Power, Progress, and Our Technological Future
This episode challenges the myth of automatic technological progress, revealing how human choices, power dynamics, and societal values, rather than inherent inevitability, truly dictate whether innovation serves the many or the few.
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“This episode challenges the myth of automatic technological progress, revealing how human choices, power dynamics, and societal values, rather than inherent inevitability, truly dictate whether innovation serves the many or the few.”
— Daron Acemoglu, The Unchosen Path: Power, Progress, and Our Technological Future
technology, power, progress
This book is for anyone seeking to move beyond simplistic narratives of technological inevitability, offering a sophisticated framework to understand how power dynamics and human choices truly determine whether innovation serves the many or the few, enabling you to critically engage with and actively shape our collective future.
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, acclaimed economists and historians, combine their deep expertise in institutional analysis and economic development to reveal the hidden forces and deliberate choices that truly govern technological progress and its societal impact.