num_pages: 232
description: Buying groceries tracking our health finding a date: whatever we want to do odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights biases and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. Its time we change that.In Technically Wrong Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we useand to demand more from the companies behind them.Just as the current political climate has inspired many to pick up a sign and head out into the street for the first time I hope Technically Wrong will inspire newcomers to start thinking more critically about the apps and algorithms around them. Anna Lauren Hoffmann ScienceAn entertaining romp that tell us where and why the tech industry once America's darling went wrong and what it might do to recover its good graces. Tim Wu author of The Master Switch
language: English
title: Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company