Homo Numericus – The coming civilization

Daniel Cohen was a Professor of Economics at the École normale supérieure and founding member of the Paris School of Economics. His many books include The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations, The Infinite Desire for Growth, The Prosperity of Vice and Homo Economicus, the (lost) prophet of modern times.

Acknowledgements Introduction Part One The Digital Illusion I. The Body and the Mind Terminator Reason and Emotions Descartes' "Error" Artificial Intelligence II. Stultify and Punish A Wild Thought The Capitalism of Surveillance III. Waiting for the Robots The Death of Kings The Industrialism of Services The Thinking Robot The Stake of the Century IV. Political Anomie Impoverishing Growth Working Class Suicide A Political Revolution Vox popoli Part Two The Return of the Real V. The Social Imagination The Law of 150 Friends Bonobos and Chimpanzees Four Possible Societies The Secular Age The Triumph of Endogamy The Post-Modern Mentality VI. Winter is Coming The Crises of the Twentieth Century The Climatic Clock The Society of Addiction VII. In a Hundred Years The Society of Abundance Back to Science Fiction VIII. By Way of Conclusion Notes Index