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Mustafa Suleyman

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

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Essay Topics

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Explore Suleyman’s arguments regarding the intersection of technology and inequality. How might emerging technologies exacerbate or alleviate existing disparities within and between societies? What measures have been taken (or should be taken) to mitigate the risk that new technologies will make inequality worse?

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What are the potential benefits and barriers to global collaboration in addressing the challenges of the coming technological wave? How do nation-states exacerbate the dangers of this wave? How might they work together to contain those dangers?

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What are Suleyman’s proposals for containing the dangers of the coming wave of technology? What are the obstacles to these proposals, and what cultural, political, and societal changes would need to take place for those obstacles to be overcome?

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