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PEOPLE vs TECH, The
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PEOPLE vs TECH, The

by J. Bartlett

Recommended by Rachel Botsman

Recommended by Rachel Botsman

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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Democracy, Politics, and Technology.

Meticulously scrutinizes the social and political consequences of our increasingly digitized world.' KirkusThe internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad me...

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Nonfiction books I've devoured over the past couple of months. Over the Xmas holidays. I'm planning on getting lost in a pile of fiction. Any recommendations

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