Description: Product OverviewIn 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. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us. ConditionThe book is in like new condition with minimal signs of wear and tear from shelf storage.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: System Error : Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Subject Area: Computers, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jeremy M. Weinstein, Mehran Sahami, Rob Reich
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
