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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,752 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 — 1,339 ratings — published 2023
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,696 ratings — published 2016
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,202 ratings — published 2017
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,291 ratings — published 2013
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,173 ratings — published 2025
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,643 ratings — published 2025
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,978 ratings — published 2023
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.21 — 82,465 ratings — published 2022
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,273 ratings — published 2021
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,983 ratings — published 2018
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,985 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.89 — 958 ratings — published
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,010 ratings — published 2018
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 3.90 — 43,048 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 4.27 — 639 ratings — published 2024
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.14 — 411,567 ratings — published 2014
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 4.24 — 1,443 ratings — published 2022
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.12 — 452,072 ratings — published 2015
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.82 — 618 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 — 2,824 ratings — published 2018
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,722 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 4.26 — 7,428 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 3.54 — 2,401 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.40 — 286,372 ratings — published 2018
Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.66 — 252 ratings — published 2021
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,381 ratings — published 2021
Uncanny Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.63 — 35,689 ratings — published 2020
Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.89 — 537 ratings — published
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,042 ratings — published 2012
Inside Apple (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,923 ratings — published 2011
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,039 ratings — published 2011
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,013 ratings — published 2011
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,980 ratings — published 2019
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,274 ratings — published 2017
Platform Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,480 ratings — published 2016
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,806 ratings — published
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,657 ratings — published 2023
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,925 ratings — published 2025
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,354 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 3.80 — 1,240 ratings — published
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,220 ratings — published 2020
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,009 ratings — published 2020
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.67 — 124 ratings — published
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,206 ratings — published 2018
In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,063 ratings — published 2021
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,444 ratings — published
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,368 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 4.18 — 1,900 ratings — published 2023
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as big-tech)
avg rating 3.62 — 5,293 ratings — published 2024
“The hard problems of reforming social media are the laws that block interoperability and the management of tech giants’ unwillingness to provide interoperability in the absence of these laws. Because Big Tech can lock people into its silos, it can impose high switching costs on users who have the temerity to leave those silos: they can make you surrender your apps, or your data, or your relationships, or your media, or your customer list.”
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“I hear this drumbeat everyday as my own YouTube videos are deleted and as my YouTube channel is demonetized.”
― Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism
― Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism
