World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101981113 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the New America Foundation. For seven years, he edited The New Republic magazine. He is the author of How Soccer Explains the World, which has been translated into 27 languages and a winner of a National Jewish Book Award.
World Without Mind is an important and urgent book that should be required reading for anyone who’s ever shopped on , swiped the screen on an Apple device, or scrolled through the Facebook newsfeed—in short, for all of us.”—Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink“Essential reading – while we still know what reading is – Foer's terrifying analysis of the cyber state we're in is both portrait gallery of the robber barons, the monopolists, the tax dodgers and the fantasists who own the data troughs from whic
They’re monopolists who want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every corner of our decision-making. Foer explains not just the looming existential crisis but the imperative of resistance.. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. Until now few have grasped the sheer scale of the threat. There have been monopolists in the past but today's corporate giants have far more nefarious aims. The corporate ambit