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World Without Mind
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World Without Mind

The Existential Threat of Big Tech

Franklin Foer
Penguin Press, 2017

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Eye Opening
  • Bold

Recommendation

As past editor of The New Republic, Franklin Foer writes about Silicon Valley’s threat to the media and democracy from the front lines of a lost war. His perspective causes him to occasionally overstate his case. Foer raises an urgent warning: Humanity sits poised on an abyss. In amassing near-monopoly control over information, Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook have become history’s greatest gatekeepers. They have no restraint about manipulating government, politics, business or individual thought.

Take-Aways

  • Silicon Valley’s giant tech firms – Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple – aspire to nothing short of everything.
  • Big Tech pursues monopoly as a noble cause – a cause that might destroy democracy.
  • Google’s noble mission includes eliminating death; whether you agree doesn’t matter.

About the Author

Franklin Foer served as editor of The New Republic for seven years before his controversial firing in 2014. He writes for The Atlantic.

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