World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

By Franklin Foer

Categories: Computers & Technology, Politics & Social Sciences

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (2017) is a book by Franklin Foer, who twice edited The New Republic. Foer argues that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple concentrate power over attention, privacy, shopping and the marketplace of ideas. Mixing a memoir of magazine publishing with industry critique, he warns that platform monopolies hollow out independent journalism and cultural life.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is World Without Mind, The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer. The topic is hot in the news today, but this sharply written polemic sounded the alarm a few years ago, sharply written, sharply argued. This book will make you think even when you disagree with it.”