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The race to zero - Data over everything -The price of free(dom) - Herding the sheeple - Social engineering 101 - Creating model societies - Automating humanity - Information, technology, and evolution - Billions of brains as one - Can't stop, won't stop - Amplified intelligence - Accessible and inclusive technologies - Ambient machines - Recognize data monopolies - Make news trustworthy - Demand transparency - Define privacy - Update consumer protection standards - Improve education - Fight for representation - Catalyze emerging markets - Reintroduce stability - Enable informed regulation - The pledge: Create the future - Acknowledgements: What it takes to make it - End notes: Learn more

Automating Humanity is the shocking and eye-opening new manifesto from international award-winning designer Joe Toscano that unravels and lays bare the power agendas of the world's greatest tech titans in plain language, and delivers a fair warning to policymakers, civilians, and industry professionals alike: we need a strategy for the future, and we need it now. Automating Humanity is an insider's perspective on everything Big Tech doesn't want the public to know--or think about--from the addictions installed on a global scale to the profits being driven by fake news and disinformation, to the way they're manipulating the world for profit and using our data to train systems that will automate jobs at an explosive, unprecedented scale. Toscano provides a critique of modern regulation, including parts of the new European Union's General Data Proctection Regulation (GDPR) suggesting how we can create proactive, adaptable regulation that satisfies both the needs of consumer safety and commercial success in the international economy. The content touches on everything from technology, economics, and public policy to psychology, history, and ethics, and is written in a way that is accessible to everyone from the average reader to the technical expert