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The digital dilemma
How should the left face up to the ubiquitous challenges of new technologies in the age of robotics, artificial intelligence and big data? ANDY HEDGECOCK reviews two books attempting some answers
Kismet Robot
Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse?
by McKenzie Wark
Verso, £14.99
Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs
Pluto Press, £19.99
DIGITAL technology has been dislodged from the political agenda by Brexit, political corruption and fears for the NHS. It occasionally flickers at the borders of our awareness but we’re failing to assess its impact and implications.
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