Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the el...

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of ‘platform capitalism’.This book critically examines these new business forms, tra...

L’economia come la conoscevamo è finita per sempre. Nel nuovo mercato digitale, dove la merce più preziosa sono i dati degli utenti, vince chi cattura la nostra attenzione. La lotta è senza quartiere, e i volumi di ricchezza generati sono immensi. Ma se nel 1960 General Motors dava lavoro a oltre mezzo milione di persone, oggi i grandi colossi del web impiegano a volte poche centinaia, se non unità, di lavoratori. In questo libro Nick Srnicek analizza la nuova forma di business delle piatt...

Chi trae beneficio e potere dall’Intelligenza artificiale? A quanto pare, in pochi. Nonostante gli enormi investimenti e il clamore mediatico, l’Intelligenza artificiale non ha generato in questi anni profitti significativi per la maggior parte delle aziende coinvolte, se non con poche – grandi – eccezioni. In questo breve testo, il teorico politico e filosofo Nick Srnicek esplora il ruolo fondamentale delle infrastrutture computazionali, dei dataset e della forza lavoro specializzata nell...

Was vereint Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Monsanto, Uber und Airbnb? Sie alle sind Unternehmen, die Hardware und Software für andere bereitstellen, mit dem Ziel, möglichst geschlossene sozio-ökonomische Tech-Systeme zu schaffen. Google kontrolliert die Recherche, Facebook regiert Social Media und Amazon ist führend beim E-Commerce. Doch nicht nur Technologie-Unternehmen bauen Plattformen auf, auch Traditionsfirmen wie Siemens entwickeln ein cloudbasiertes Produktionssystem. Plattform...

Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the el...

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of platform capitalism.This book critically examines these new business forms, traci...

Che fine ha fatto il futuro? Dove sono andati a finire i grandiosi progetti per una società più giusta, più libera, più felice, che una volta furono al centro della storia della sinistra? In questo saggio al tempo stesso rigoroso e provocatorio, Nick Srnicek e Alex Williams abbandonano ogni tentazione nostalgica e provano a immaginare attraverso quali mezzi ridisegnare una prospettiva che dal capitalismo 24/7 in cui siamo costretti a vivere, ci conduca a un mondo libero dal lavoro ed ecolo...

Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead...

El neoliberalismo no está funcionando. A lo largo de las últimas décadas, las políticas económicas neoliberales han arrastrado a millones de personas a la pobreza y a otras muchas a trabajos precarios y mal pagados. Entretanto, la izquierda se mantiene atrapada en una serie de prácticas que rara vez ofrecen un respiro y menos aún una solución a la crisis. Este libro propone, finalmente, una alternativa. "Inventar el futuro" es un audaz manifiesto sobre la vida después del capitalismo. En c...

Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete - cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on.In this ground-breaking book, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives - how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home...

"Die Zukunft erfinden" ist ein Manifest für das Leben nach dem Kapitalismus. Gegen die Konfusion, die politisch links wie rechts herrscht, wenn es darum geht, unsere High-Tech-Welt zu verstehen, stellt sich das Buch der Aufgabe, das emanzipatorische und zukunftsorientierte Potential der heutigen Gesellschaften zurückzuerobern. Statt einer komplizierten Zukunft auszuweichen, zielen Nick Srnicek und Alex Williams auf eine postkapitalistische Ökonomie, die es erlaubt, die Lebensbedingungen de...