Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-318) and index.
Contents:
Author's note -- A summary of the case -- The valley of the kings -- Advertising and its discontents -- Party like it's 1999 -- Darkness rises -- A slot machine in your pocket -- The network effect -- The Uberization of everything -- The new monopolists -- Too fast to fail -- In the swamp -- 2016: the year it all changed -- A new world war -- How to not be evil.
Summary:
Offers an indictment of today's largest tech companies and how they're hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds. Foroohar shows the true extent to which behemoths like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon are monetizing both our data and our attention, without us seeing a penny of those exorbitant profits. The author lays out a plan for how we can resist, by creating a framework that fosters innovation while also protecting us from the dark side of digital technology. --From publisher description.
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