World Without Mind
Subtitle: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: Sep 12, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781101981115
Description: Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science, Foer puts the DNA of the very idea of "tech" under the microscope. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, he argues, are breaking laws intended protect intellectual property and privacy. This is not the path towards freedom and prosperity, but the total automation and homogenization of our social, political, and intellectual lives. Today's corporate giants want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every corner of our lives. Foer both indicts these companies, and shapes a path towards reining them in.
Notes: Source title: World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech