System error : where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot
Weinstein, Jeremy M.2023
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In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology's liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It doesn't need to be this way. 'System Error' exposes the root of our current predicament - how big tech's relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get.
Main title:
System error : where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot / Jeremy Weinstein, Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami.
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Imprint:
London : Hodder, 2023.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781529356748 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
303.483
Language:
English
BRN:
2332560