The 3rd Ingredient: The Journey of Analog Ethics into the World of Digital Fear and Greed [SIGNED]

Blasingame, Jim

Published by SBN Books, Florence, Alabama, 2018

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As new condition black boards with silver front cover and spine lettering, contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Praise for The 3rd Ingredient; Dedication; Foreword; Introduction: Read This First - You'll Thank Me Later; Meet Your Fellow Ethical Travelers; Prologue by Charles Mackay (1814-1889); Afterword; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; A Little Surprise; and About the Author. Illustrated with color diagrams. Signed and inscribed by the author with black pen on the blank first free front endpaper. "Sitting her on our 21st century perch, where we've compounded Moore's Law into talking paint, you and I can be forgiven for thinking we're pretty smart. But we're approaching an intersection that will challenge us as never before. Humans have always been, and will always be, physical, analog beings. Fortunately, for 10,000 years we've advanced in a compatible, analog world, including assembling a thick catalog of ethical standards. But for the first time in history, contemporary humans are being called upon to reconcile our analog nature - including ethics - against forces of the world that are increasingly powered by digital leverage. This is a book of stories, with characters who will be our ethical proxies as we make the passage from our analog past to a once-and-future digital reality. The setting of each episode deals with challenges that illuminate the relationship between the ethics of that period and humanity's two, eternally primal elements: Fear and Greed. And as we race, hell-bent-for-light-speed into the ever-more-digital 21st Century, there's the rub. As our fellow travelers approach and enter that intersection - where the analog ethics that got us here are being increasingly challenged - the digital universe will rudely, and without any due respect, demand answers to such questions as: What ethical force will humans use to govern digital Fear and Greed? What will digital Trust look like? Finding and becoming devoted to these answers is our ultimate quest - to discover The 3rd Ingredient. Throughout the book, standing in judgment of each ethical player, guided only by your own values and devotion to the unenforceable, beware, lest the glass in the window you're looking through turns into a mirror." - from the inner front jacket flap. "The 3rd Ingredient will start a conversation that's sorely needed: Will we find a way for Trust to flourish in the Digital Age? Will we become devoted to a new force? A 3rd Ingredient." - Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO, Gallup, excerpt from the Foreword. Seller Inventory # 003675

Bibliographic Details

Title: The 3rd Ingredient: The Journey of Analog ...

Publisher: SBN Books, Florence, Alabama

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)