The book takes a peek into the future that will be dominated by machines. A future where there won't be any ordinary jobs and there will be machines to fix other machines.

Now, imagine there is nothing to work on, humans have no skills that cannot be emulated by machines. There is no task that humans do that the machines cannot. Who controls whom in this scenario?

Although this seems like an exciting Sci-Fi movie, the author is not Zhat Vash warning you about annihilation by synths. He is predicting problems for government and governance in the near future.

Problems that technology is already causing us with rampant use of bots by political parties and enemy countries to influence people's opinions and outcomes of elections and public opinion.

As we move forward on this path, more laborious jobs will be eliminated, resulting in widespread unemployment, and the transfer of power will shift from the masses to people who own and control technology.

The author shows with examples how this shift will create further inequality in distribution of wealth, and weaken the voice of people in democracies and governance.

While the author paints a dystopian scenario, he also shows us how we can keep our principles alive and thriving by using technology in the right way. The author suggests different ways governments can keep people involved and make wealth distribution equitable .

The author stresses that technology can be a boon to us all and we can use it to improve our lives, and aim for higher targets in a post-work world. A world where machines and humans collaborate to further our advance like never before.

Overall, a must read book for anyone who wonders how the advance of thinking machines will impact our world and our social systems - beyond the dystopian movies.

Cyber Republic, by George Zarkadarias, manages in a short book to explain a bit about our current world situation, with the challenges liberal democracies are facing with the advent AI and to present his idea for a future liberal democracy that would help solving the problems brought by the 4ht Industrial Revolution.

The author makes a great job explaining difficult concepts in an interesting yet simple way. I struggled a little to go through the part he explains blockchain, but I believe that is more of a personal issue of me not being very interested in the subject "cryptocurrencies" itself. The first half of the book he takes the time to really go over the concepts and current overview of the liberal democracies, which I can definitely appreciate as it helped me understand his proposal. Second half he focused on the Cyber Rebublic itself, showing its main principles, foundations, importance, challenges and the best way to go with implementing. He takes the time to show examples and studies to explain his reasoning, making it easier for us to see where it was coming from

I received an ARC of this book to read through NetGalley in exchange for a fair review