The Green and The Blue – Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age

LUCIANO FLORIDI is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center and a Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University.

Preface vii Acknowledgement x Chapter 1: The Importance of Naive Ideas 1 Chapter 2: The Digital Revolution 9 Chapter 3: The Transition from Things to Relations 24 Chapter 4: The Infosphere 41 Chapter 5: Fake News 46 Chapter 6: Digital Time 49 Chapter 7: The Onlife Experience 56 Chapter 8: A Mature Information Society 65 Chapter 9: The Human Project 71 Chapter 10: From the Social Contract to a Universal Trust 79 Chapter 11: Infraethics 85 Chapter 12: Human Interfaces 93 Chapter 13: Human Dignity 100 Chapter 14: The Problem of Leisure Occupation 109 Chapter 15: Homo: Faber, Sapiens, Ludens, and Poieticus 120 Chapter 16: A Proxy Culture 128 Chapter 17: Politics as Marketing 135 Chapter 18: Digital Grey Power 142 Chapter 19: The Digital Gift Economy 148 Chapter 20: Structural Democracy 154 Chapter 21: Stealth Democracy 162 Chapter 22: Nomos and Paideia 169 Chapter 23: Digital Sovereignty 174 Chapter 24: Green and Blue for a Sustainable and Preferable Future 188 Chapter 25: The Value of Waste 198 Chapter 26: Climate Change and the Terrible Hope 202 Chapter 27: From Self-regulation to Legislation 207 Chapter 28: Hundred Political Theses for a Mature Information Society 212 Postscript - The Information Society in the Time of the Coronavirus 233 Acknowledgements 237 References 239 Index 244