World without mind : the existential threat of big tech
Book |
Penguin Press,
New York :
2017.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled the way we think. Without pausing to consider the cost, the world has rushed to embrace the products and services of four titanic corporations. We shop with Amazon; socialize on Facebook; turn to Apple for entertainment; and rely on Google for information. These firms sell their efficiency and purport to make the world a better place, but what they have done instead is to enable an intoxicating level of daily convenience. As these companies have expanded, marketing themselves as champions of individuality and pluralism, their algorithms have pressed us into conformity and laid waste to privacy. They have produced an unstable and narrow culture of misinformation, and put us on a path to a world without private contemplation, autonomous thought, or solitary introspection - a world without mind. In order to restore our inner lives, we must avoid being coopted by these gigantic companies, and understand the ideas that underpin their success.
Details
- ISBN: 9781101981115 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 257 pages ; 24 cmprint
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: The monopolists of mind. The valley is whole, the world is one -- The Google theory of history -- Mark Zuckerberg's war on free will -- Jeff Bezos disrupts knowledge -- Keepers of the big gate in the sky -- Big Tech's smoke-filled room -- World without mind. The virality virus -- Death of the author -- Take back the mind. In search of the angel of data -- The organic mind -- The paper rebellion.