World without mind : the existential threat of big tech / Franklin Foer.
World without mind : the existential threat of big tech / Franklin Foer.
World without mind : the existential threat of big tech / Franklin Foer.
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New York : Penguin Press, [2017]
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English
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257 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Section I. The monopolists of mind -- 1. The valley is whole, the world is one -- 2. The Google theory of history -- 3. Mark Zuckerberg's war on free will -- Jeff Bezos disrupts knowledge -- 5. Keepers of the big gate in the sky -- 6. Big Tech's smoke-filled room -- Section II. World without mind --...
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New York : Penguin Press, [2017]
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New York (State)
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[2017]
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Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science, Foer puts the DNA of the very idea of "tech" under the microscope. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, he argues, are breaking laws intended protect intellectual property and privacy. This is not the path towards freedom and prosperity, but the total automation and homogenization of o...
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World without mind : the existential threat of big tech / Franklin Foer.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-250) and index.
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Online version: Foer, Franklin, author. World without mind New York : Penguin Press, [2017] 9781101981139
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G 2017/4519
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1101981113 hardcover
9781101981115 hardcover
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303.483
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991024132614302626
