Digital Republic

Digital Republic is Jamie Susskind's proposal for dealing with the unaccountable power held by digital technology. Susskind is a barrister and writer who works in law and public policy, and the book sets out a plan for action rather than only a diagnosis of the problem.

He draws on the republican tradition of political thought, in which freedom means not being subject to the arbitrary will of others, and applies it to the technology firms and systems that increasingly shape daily life. His argument is that this power should answer to the public through law and democratic control. The subtitle is On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century, and the book follows his earlier work Future Politics.