S1 Ep63: George Zarkadakis - Re-Inventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Around the world, liberal democracies are in crisis. Citizens are losing faith in their government; right-wing nationalist movements frame the political debate. At the same time, economic inequality is increasing dramatically; digital technologies have created a new class of super-rich entrepreneurs. Automation threatens to transform the free economy into a zero-sum game in which capital wins and labour loses. But is this digital dystopia inevitable? Is their light at the end of the current tunnel?