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The Power Switch: How Power is Changing in a Networked World
Fri 31 March 2017
Cripps Court Auditorium
Recent decades have seen the rise of a number of large US technology companies – Alphabet (Google’s holding company), Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple – which have achieved global dominance in their original fields (digital technology) and are now moving into other markets (healthcare, mobility, hotels, media, to name just four). The scale and reach—as well as the wealth—of these corporations revives old concerns about corporate power and its regulation (for example in relation to monopoly and data protection). But their dominance also raises new questions deriving from the distinctive affordances of digital technology and the companies’ mastery of it. In what ways is the power that they wield different from older kinds of corporate power? How should the power flowing from mastery of the technology be conceptualised? What kinds of regulatory approaches are viable in this new environment? Where does corporate responsibility begin and end in applications of Artificial Intelligence? And can the nation-state effectively regulate these new global entities?
Cost: Full fee £20, concession fee £10
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
Enquiries: Judith Weik Website Email: jw571@cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223 760488
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| Lunch and refreshments will be provided | |
| Address: | Cripps Court Auditorium Magdalene College 1-3 Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3AD UK |
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