The Green and The Blue

The Green and the Blue explores the opportunities in our digital age for combining green environmental policies with blue digital solutions to strengthen democracy, reform capitalism, and ensure an equitable future. World-renowned philosopher Luciano Floridi lays out a timely and convincing case for embracing responsible practices to work toward a sustainable environment and a fair society. With an engaging and readable style, The Green and the Blue offers fresh perspectives, original ideas, and bold strategies for improving political systems that emphasize the importance of cooperation, ethics, and foresight. Insightful analysis and compelling thought experiments encourage readers to think critically about the future of politics, challenge traditional notions of capitalism, and collaborate to effect meaningful change. Innovative, accessible, and forward-thinking, The Green and the Blue: Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age is essential reading for anyone with an interest in politics and philosophy of technology in modern society.

Preface vii

Acknowledgement x

Chapter 1: The Importance of Naive Ideas 1

Chapter 2: The Digital Revolution 9

Chapter 3: The Transition from Things to Relations 24

Chapter 4: The Infosphere 41

Chapter 5: Fake News 46

Chapter 6: Digital Time 49

Chapter 7: The Onlife Experience 56

Chapter 8: A Mature Information Society 65

Chapter 9: The Human Project 71

Chapter 10: From the Social Contract to a Universal Trust 79

Chapter 11: Infraethics 85

Chapter 12: Human Interfaces 93

Chapter 13: Human Dignity 100

Chapter 14: The Problem of Leisure Occupation 109

Chapter 15: Homo: Faber, Sapiens, Ludens, and Poieticus 120

Chapter 16: A Proxy Culture 128

Chapter 17: Politics as Marketing 135

Chapter 18: Digital Grey Power 142

Chapter 19: The Digital Gift Economy 148

Chapter 20: Structural Democracy 154

Chapter 21: Stealth Democracy 162

Chapter 22: Nomos and Paideia 169

Chapter 23: Digital Sovereignty 174

Chapter 24: Green and Blue for a Sustainable and Preferable Future 188

Chapter 25: The Value of Waste 198

Chapter 26: Climate Change and the Terrible Hope 202

Chapter 27: From Self-regulation to Legislation 207

Chapter 28: Hundred Political Theses for a Mature Information Society 212

Postscript - The Information Society in the Time of the Coronavirus 233

Acknowledgements 237

References 239

Index 244