![]() And it’s a terrifying one.īy introducing addictive new features, Foer writes, these companies have made us hopelessly dependent. Silicon Valley, he argues, may say it wants to improve the world, But its true endgame is the advancement of an ideological agenda. tech firms (but not, crucially, technology itself). Investigating the practices of these digital gatekeepers, he has crafted an anti-Silicon Valley manifesto that while occasionally slipping into alarmism makes a cogently scary case against the influence of U.S. In his new book, “World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech,” the veteran journalist lays out a more ominous view of where Big Tech would like to take us - and in many ways, already has taken us. Facebook builds the connective tissue to old friends and colleagues.įranklin Foer has a different perspective. ![]() Amazon is the white-knight savior of impulse shopping. Google holds the key to new depths of knowledge. To many Americans, large technology firms embody much of what’s good about the modern world. ![]()
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