Future Politics by Leonard Susskind

Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

An accessible, provocative examination of how rapidly advancing technologies—artificial intelligence, big data, biotechnology, and ubiquitous surveillance—are reshaping power, privacy, and democracy. It argues that technical capabilities will enable unprecedented concentration of control by states and corporations unless new political institutions, legal frameworks, and public awareness are developed; explores scenarios in which algorithms and engineered biology change incentives, behaviors, and inequalities; and stresses the need for democratic oversight, transparency, and collective choices to preserve individual freedom and social justice.