This Handbook provides a thorough discussion of the most recent wave of technological (and organisational) innovations, frequently called “smart” and based on the digitisation of information. The acronym stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology". This new wave is one in a row of waves that have shaken up and transformed the economy, society and culture since the first Industrial Revolution and have left a huge impact on how we live, think, communicate and work: they have deeply affected the socioeconomic metabolism from within and humankind’s footprint on our planet. The Handbook analyses the origins of the current wave, its roots in earlier ones and its path-dependent nature; its current forms and actual manifestations; its multifarious impact on economy and society; and it puts forward some guesstimates regarding the probable directions of its further development. In short, the Handbook studies the past, the present and the future of smart technologies and digitalisation.
This cutting-edge reference will appeal to a broad audience, including but not limited to, researchers from various disciplines with a focus on technological innovation and their impact on the socioeconomic system; students across different fields but especially from economics, social sciences and law studying questions related to radical technological change and its consequences, as well as professionals around the globe interested in the debate of smart technologies and socioeconomic transformation, from a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective.
Author(s): Heinz D. Kurz, Marlies Schütz, Rita Strohmaier, Stella S. Zilian
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 712
City: London
Cover
Half Title
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction and contents of the volume
Part 1 Disruptive technological change: historical record, economic analysis, methods and tools
1 Is technological progress inevitable?
2 Disruptive technological change in recent economic history
3 On machine ages: causes, forms and effects of technological change
4 Tools and concepts for understanding disruptive technological change after Schumpeter
5 Entrepreneurship and industrial organisation
6 Is this time different? A note on automation and labour in the fourth Industrial Revolution
Part 2 Smart technologies and work
7 Smart technologies and the changing skills landscape in developing countries
8 The impact of disruptive technologies on work and employment
9 The fourth industrial revolution and the distribution of income
10 The legal protection of platform workers
11 Smart technologies and gender: a never-ending story
Part 3 Smart technologies and social and economic transformation
12 Artificial intelligence
13 The science space of artificial intelligence knowledge production: global and regional patterns, 1990–2016
14 Structural dynamics in the era of smart technologies
15 The diffusion of industrial robots
16 The triple bottom line of smart manufacturing technologies: an economic, environmental, and social perspective
17 From smart technologies to value creation: understanding smart service systems through text mining
18 Smart cities, a spatial perspective: on the “how” of smart urban transformation
19 Producing the ‘user’ in smart technologies: a framework for examining user representations in smart grids and smart metering infrastructure
Part 4 Smart technologies, governance and institutions
20 Digital transformation and the sovereignty of nation states
21 Antitrust law and digital markets
22 Platform regulation: coordination of markets and curation of sociality on the internet
23 New mission-oriented innovation policy in the digital era: how policy-based social technologies fuel the development of smart technologies
24 Crypto assets
25 Blockchain and the “smart-ification” of governance: the last “building block” in the smart economy
Part 5 Smart technologies and grand societal challenges
26 “Back to the future”: smart technologies and the sustainable development goals
27 North–South divide in research and innovation and the challenges of global technology assessment: the case of smart technologies in agriculture
28 Smart technologies, energy demand and vulnerable groups; the scope for ‘just’ metering?
29 Smart health
30 Cybersecurity and ethics: an uncommon yet indispensable combination of issues
Part 6 Smart technologies: case studies
31 A digital society for an ageing population: the Japanese experience
32 Digitalisation and development in India: an overview
33 Industry 4.0 in China
Index
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Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
