Books : “Homo numericus : La “civilisation” qui vient” by Daniel Cohen

In his latest book, Daniel Cohen reviews the challenges of the digital revolution and explains how it has profoundly changed our societies.

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“Homo numericus : La “civilisation” qui vient”

Find the page dedicated to the book on the website of Éditions Albin Michel.

Abstract

The renowned author of La prospérité du vice et d’autres best-sellers describes with a joyful ferocity this so-called “civilization” that will disrupt our lives. Love? Now it’s Tinder! The office? Working from home! A new job? Algorithms are recruiting! Political parties? It’s on Twitter! At the center of this new world? Homo numericus, a being overwhelmed with contradictions. He wants to control everything, but he is himself irrational and impulsive, driven to addictive behaviors by those same algorithms that monitor the smallest details of his existence.

Should we despair? Not necessarily. The digital revolution is responding to the expectations of a society that wants every word to be heard, without revealed truth. Finding the way to achieve this utopia: that is also the ambition of this book.

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