Publisher's Synopsis
ROBOTIZED DEMOCRACIESUS and EU: neo-feudalism and citizenship income?Research and debateLuis Moreno & Raúl JiménezHaving overcome the worst effects of the Great Recession unleashed in 2007-08, our democracies remain in a critical juncture. The context of analysis of this book is the Western Hemisphere but the implications of the ongoing change of era affect the global order. Above any other consideration, robotization implies long-term structural changes with far reaching consequences for democracy. This fourth technological revolution (Industry 4.0) has strengthened the autonomy of corporations and has empowered technostructure. Automation and the extensive use of internet are intensifying the progressive applications of the artificial intelligence (AI) and are set to further encourage productive maximization. Eventually, these ongoing processes will make superfluous many of the existing jobs. Shall we live a democratic future as we have known it until now? Will it be different because of the technological changes under way? What repercussions will they have for human relations? This essay book describes in detail the applications of robotization and IA, which will influence developments of neo-feudalism in the US and the implementation of citizenship income in the case of the EU.LUIS MORENO ((https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_ Moreno_Fern%C3%A1ndez))He is Research Professor of Social Sciences at the Institute of Publics Goods and Policies within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He has been Jean Monnet Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Among other publications, he is author and editor of the books: Social exchange and welfare development (1993), The Federalization of Spain (2001), The territorial politics of welfare (2005, & N. McEwen), Nationalism and Democracy. Dichotomies, Complementarities, Oppositions (2010, & A. Lecours), Diversity and Unity in Federal Systems (2010, & C. Colino), and L'Europa asociale (2017).RAÚL JIMÉNEZ (https: //sites.google.com/site/rauljimenez/)Cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist, he is ICREA Professor at Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) of the University of Barcelona, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Imperial College in London. Graduate of the Autonomous University of Madrid he received his PhD at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen. He has been researcher at the Royal Observatory of the University of Edinburgh and professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused on the study of the origin and evolution of the universe. An expert in advanced statistical methods, he has contributed to the development of original techniques for cosmological data analyses. Recently, he has been Radcliffe Fellow at the Institute of Advance Studies of the University of Harvard.
