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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.16 — 87,409 ratings — published 2025
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,197 ratings — published 2023
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,868 ratings — published 2016
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,899 ratings — published 2017
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,323 ratings — published
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.22 — 76,063 ratings — published 2022
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,044 ratings — published 2021
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.14 — 77,179 ratings — published 2013
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,907 ratings — published 2025
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.91 — 42,442 ratings — published 2017
Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.29 — 563 ratings — published 2024
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,378 ratings — published 2022
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.83 — 597 ratings — published 2021
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,755 ratings — published 2018
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,385 ratings — published 2021
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,168 ratings — published 2021
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,377 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,236 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.41 — 280,306 ratings — published 2018
Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.67 — 244 ratings — published 2021
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,337 ratings — published 2021
Uncanny Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.63 — 35,211 ratings — published 2020
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,766 ratings — published 2019
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,256 ratings — published 2017
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,473 ratings — published 2025
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.85 — 856 ratings — published
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,786 ratings — published 2020
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,881 ratings — published 2018
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,851 ratings — published 2020
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.68 — 120 ratings — published
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,790 ratings — published 2024
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,519 ratings — published 2023
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.43 — 230,060 ratings — published 2013
Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.88 — 656 ratings — published
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,946 ratings — published 2018
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.15 — 394,746 ratings — published 2014
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,457 ratings — published 2022
The Tyranny of Big Tech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.04 — 906 ratings — published 2021
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,452 ratings — published 2019
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.13 — 442,889 ratings — published 2015
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,238 ratings — published 2020
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,062 ratings — published 2018
The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.53 — 169 ratings — published
A People's History of Silicon Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.04 — 46 ratings — published
Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It (FSG Originals x Logic)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.77 — 269 ratings — published 2020
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.30 — 57,571 ratings — published 2019
Subprime Attention Crisis (FSG Originals x Logic)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,150 ratings — published
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,955 ratings — published 2019
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,133 ratings — published 2019
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,378 ratings — published 2018
“The lower the switching costs are, the better a company has to treat you if they want to keep your business.”
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“As the power of the common person declined, the power of the Big Tech overclass multiplied: power over attention, over time, over users’ judgment, and soon power over their speech.”
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