Julian Assange

Jérémie Zimmermann

Andy Müller-Maguhn

Jacob Appelbaum

Visionary WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed,' perpetually tracking people's locations, contacts and lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most people willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance? And does anyone have the ability to resist this tide?'

Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Cypherpunks

Shermin Voshmgir

Marek Tuszynski

Alexa Clay

Vinay Gupta

Angela Richter

Raúl Krauthausen

Andrea Bauer

Tomàš Sedláček

Cristina Riesen

Elizabeth Markevitch

Geraldine de Bastion

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Masha McConaghy

Monika Frech

Boris Moshkovits

The Krypto Economy elaborates on the underlying dynamics of our digital era to better create a responsible technological future. Living in a world of exponential technological advancement, we have new construction kits to create and probe possible realities. Marshall McLuan once said that first we build the tools and then the tools build us. We are designed by what we have designed. To design a utopian rather than dystopian future, we took a closer look at the status and potentials of our technological tools. Over a series of seven panel discussions — using some of the most analytical and imaginative minds — we experienced that today's digital instruments are our ultimate Kryptonite. Its benefits have the capacity to aid us exponentially. And yet, its destructive powers — mass surveillance, elimination of privacy, or virtual concentration of power — could push us down a terrifying path. With this book you can join the discourse and find the answers to the most fundamental questions to better navigate towards a responsible technological future.

Conversations on the Digital Era

The Krypto Economy

Catherine Hapka

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