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by Sebastian Mallaby; · 30 Mar 2026 · 607pp · 161,998 words
to watch over DeepMind’s progress. With that attempt at oversight stillborn, Suleyman in particular resolved to create an alternative arrangement. He imagined a novel, post-capitalist form of governance: one that might balance the drastic tensions in the era of AI, when the imperatives of profit, existential risk, and social justice
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a global interest company. Nobody would profit from this enterprise. The global interest company would be managed with capitalist intensity but its impact would be post-capitalist. Hoffman had recently sold LinkedIn to Microsoft: His personal net worth stood at $3.8 billion. He was an unabashed idealist, proclaiming that he aimed
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wrap nonprofit governance around powerful AI. OpenAI existed as a nonprofit but needed some capitalist machinery to raise money. Both saw salvation in a capitalist/post-capitalist hybrid. Like Hassabis and Suleyman, OpenAI’s leaders were discovering that restructuring talks led quickly to quarrels. A month or so into the discussions, OpenAI
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Google absorbed DeepMind Health, it shuttered the Independent Review Panel that had watched over its work. After less than three years, Suleyman’s experiment in post-capitalist transparency had been consigned to the dustbin of history. The dispiriting truth was that Pichai had good reason to close the review panel. Even though
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by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor · 14 Sep 2026 · 393pp · 124,539 words
everyone is welcome, to inclusive futures where peace and safety are core principles. Not the post-human future desired by end times fascists, but a post-capitalist and pro-(all of) life one. Deeply democratic, socialist, feminist, multiracial, multispecies, internationalist, generous, courageous, and animate. Embodied and sensory, proudly earthbound. We can already
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talk about time and digital technology right now without mentioning accelerationism. Derived from Marx, accelerationism advises speeding up capitalism to smash through dystopia to a post-capitalist utopia – or sometimes, just to smash. ‘Accelerationism’ was coined – critically – by the critical theorist, Benjamin Noys. It has left-wing iterations but is best known
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by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
bancor has come to realization is in the United Federation of Planets’ “credits” in Gene Rodenberry’s television series Star Trek. The series paints a post-capitalist, utopian socialist future; for the series’ intensely committed fan base, the world of Star Trek is almost reality.4 And before one of them writes
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by Richard Florida · 28 Jun 2009 · 325pp · 73,035 words
,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper no. 12355, July 2006. Chapter 7 1 Dan Pink, Free Agent Nation, Warner Books, 2001. 2 Peter Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, Harper Business, 1993; Drucker, “Beyond the Information Revolution,” Atlantic Monthly, October 1999, pp. 47-57; Drucker, “The Next Society,” The Economist, November 1, 2001
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by Ronald Bailey · 20 Jul 2015 · 417pp · 109,367 words
” as a stalking horse to scare the rest of us into adopting their vast schemes to transform the world’s economy into some kind of post-capitalist utopia. Consequently, progressives strongly support United Nations negotiations aiming at a global treaty that would impose central planning on the climate. So far, those negotiations
A History of Zionism
by Walter Laqueur · 1 Jan 1972 · 965pp · 267,053 words
-Jewish attacks were triggered off by economic crises, others were of different origin; nor does this theory explain the occurrence of antisemitism in pre- and post-capitalist societies. The competitive character of capitalism provided, no doubt, an excellent breeding ground for collective dissatisfaction and insecurity, but why was it that the Jews
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this concept never made much sense in eastern Europe, where the majority of Jews was concentrated, nor does it provide an explanation for pre- and post-capitalist antisemitism. The Austrian Marxists, who faced the nationality problem in an acute form, were aware of the weakness of this aspect of Marxist theory, and
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nowhere on the decline. International working-class solidarity is invoked less and less – even as a slogan. Antisemitism has antedated capitalism and still exists in post-capitalist societies. As Communism has moved from proletarian internationalism to a nationalist brand of Socialism the position of Jews under these régimes and in Communist movements
Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank
by Chris Skinner · 27 Aug 2013 · 329pp · 95,309 words
if the oppressor is a system? The system is the economic system of capitalism. Capitalism is oppressing the people of Europe and America in the post-capitalistic meltdown and the mobile internet is allowing the oppressed to break this oppression. That is why Time Magazine named their 2011 Person of the Year
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Mar 2016 · 366pp · 94,209 words
/about-overview/. 81. “Machines: Global Village Construction Set,” opensourceecology.org/gvcs/. 82. opensourceecology.org/about-overview/. 83. David Bollier, “The FLOK Society Vision of a Post-Capitalist Economy,” bollier.org, March 2, 2014. 84. Bethany Horne, “How the FLOK Society Brings a Commons Approach to Ecuador’s Economy,” shareable.net, October 22
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by Eric Hobsbawm · 5 Sep 2011 · 621pp · 157,263 words
more mature economic studies Marx himself envisaged the possible development of an increasingly labourless economy, 113 How to Change the World at least in a post-capitalist era. 15 Even in the old industrial economies of capitalism, the percentage of people employed in manufacturing industry remained stable until the 1970s, except for
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necessarily have to mark a sharp shift away from private appropriation to social management on a global scale. It is extremely unlikely that such a ‘post-capitalist society’ would correspond to the traditional models of socialism, and still less to the ‘really existing’ socialisms of the Soviet era. What forms it might
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admirably with Marxian theory’ (Baran and Sweezy), 13 both also agreed that ‘it has not been more successful than liberalism in formulating a theory of post-capitalist society’ (Lichtheim) or ‘contributed significantly to our understanding of some of the major characteristics of the “affluent society”’ (Baran and Sweezy). For the best part
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the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with capitalist development’, and the proposition that the post-capitalist society will lead to the end of human alienation and the full development of all individuals’ human faculties. They belong to different forms of discourse
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