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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

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內容簡介 吳修銘（Tim Wu）探討了當今佔主導地位的平台如何操縱注意力、榨取財富並加劇不平等——敦促我們認識到它們的影響力，並重新奪回控制權，以創造一個有利於所有人的平衡經濟。「吳修銘的《榨取時代》的魔力在於它的簡潔性。吳修銘巧妙地將我們這個時代最大的挑戰之一——科技平台毋須負責的權力——分解成易於理解的部分，讓解決方案變得顯而易見。這是必讀之作。」 — 凱倫·郝（Karen Hao），《AI 帝國：山姆·阿特曼的 OpenAI 中的夢想與夢魘》作者「這不只是你的錯覺——你的線上生活正在掏空你的錢包……《榨取時代》是對我們如何走到平台資本主義（platform capitalism）這一步的敏銳且發人深省的介紹——在這裡，沒有一個好的點擊會不被變現。」 — 《科克斯書評》（Kirkus Reviews）我們的世界被少數科技平台所主導。它們提供了巨大的便利和娛樂，但也成為有史以來發明出來的最有效的財富榨取工具，從我們所有人手中攫取了大量的金錢、數據和注意力。一個由數位平台和 AI 影響力驅動的經濟，有潛力使我們變得更富裕，但同時也威脅要邊緣化整個產業、擴大貧富差距，並滋生一個兩級分化的國家。隨著技術發展和市場調整，社會能否為每個人創造更美好的生活？是否有可能平衡經濟增長與平均主義，還是我們已經積重難返？吳修銘——這位卓越的學者和前白宮官員，同時也是「網路中立性」（net neutrality）一詞的提出者——探討了平台權力的興起，並詳細介紹了在這些系統中工作所帶來的風險與回報。《榨取時代》講述了一個在 1990 年代和 2000 年代曾承諾帶來廣泛財富和民主的網路，最終卻創造了新的經濟階級並助長了專制主義傳播的故事。吳修銘透過近期的歷史教訓——從生成式 AI 和預測性社會數據，到反壟斷和加密貨幣運動——來框定我們當前的時刻，並展望一個技術進步可以服務於最大多數人利益的未來。《榨取時代》簡潔且充滿希望，提供了具體的建議，教導我們如何奪回控制權，從而為所有人實現更好的經濟平衡與繁榮。Tim Wu explores how today’s dominant platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality—urging us to recognize their influence and reclaim control to create a balanced economy that works for all.“The magic of Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction is its simplicity. Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age—the unaccountable power of tech platforms—into such digestible pieces that the solutions for what to do become dead obvious. Essential reading.”—Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI"It’s not just in your head—your online life is draining your wallet.... [The Age of Extraction is] a sharp and eye-opening introduction to how we arrived at platform capitalism—where no good click goes unmonetized.”—Kirkus ReviewsOur world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment, but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data, and attention from all of us. An economy driven by digital platforms and AI influence offers the potential to enrich us, and also threatens to marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap, and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better life for everyone? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too far gone?Tim Wu—the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase “net neutrality”—explores the rise of platform power and details the risks and rewards of working within such systems. The Age of Extraction tells the story of an Internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy in the 1990s and 2000s, only to create new economic classes and aid the spread of autocracy instead. Wu frames our current moment with lessons from recent history—from generative AI and predictive social data to the antimonopoly and crypto movements—and envisions a future where technological advances can serve the greatest possible good. Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for taking back control in order to achieve a better economic balance and prosperity for all.

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作者介紹 Tim WuTim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia University, best known for coining the term "net neutrality." In 2006, Scientific American named him one of 50 leaders in science and technology; in 2007, 01238 magazine listed him as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates; in 2013, National Law Journal included him in "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers"; and in 2014 and 2015, he was named to the "Politico 50." He formerly wrote for Slate, where he won the Lowell Thomas Gold medal for Travel Journalism, and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. In 2015, he was appointed to the Executive Staff of the Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a senior enforcement counsel and special adviser.

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