Wrecking ball : why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa's experiment in inclusive democracy / Stu Woolman.
The definition of wicked problems, repurposed -- PROLOGUE: Predicting SARS-CoV-2, pandemic mismanagement and how COVID-19 has accelerated permanent technological unemployment --?CHAPTER I: An exhalation -- CHAPTER II: Wicked problems defined and repurposed, problems of collective action distinguished, and the challenges that wicked problems pose to South Africa's not quite so inclusive democracy -- CHAPTER III: The wicked problem of permanent technological unemployment -- CHAPTER IV: The consequences of permanent technological unemployment for South Africa -- CHAPTER V: Conclusion -- 'Doing the best we can' -- EPILOGUE: Doubling down
Summary:
Wrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability of nations to cabin private power, the failure of multinational institutions to promote collaboration and the deepening of autocratic rule in countries that have never known anything but extractive institutions. Collectively, or even severally, these wicked problems constitute crises that could end civilisation.
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