We lived in a relatively unregulated digital world until now. It was great until the public realized that a few companies wield too much power today in our lives. We will see significant changes in areas like privacy, data protection, algorithm and architecture design guidelines, and platform accountability, etc. which should reduce the pervasiveness of misinformation, hate and visceral content over the internet.
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- We lived in a relatively unregulated digital world until now.
- It was great until the public realized that a few companies wield too much power today in our lives.
- We will see significant changes in areas like
- privacy,
- data protection,
- algorithm and
- architecture design guidelines, and
- platform accountability, etc.
- which should reduce the pervasiveness of
- misinformation,
- hate and visceral content
- over the internet.
- These steps will also reduce the power wielded by digital giants.
- Beyond these immediate effects, it is difficult to say if these social innovations will create a more participative and healthy society.
- These broader effects are driven by deeper underlying factors, like
- history,
- diversity,
- cohesiveness and
- social capital, and also
- political climate and
- institutions.
- In other words,
- just as digital world is shaping the physical world,
- physical world shapes our digital world as well.
- author: Prateek Raj
- assistant professor in strategy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore