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Franklin Foer unveils the existential risk posed by big technical and in his fantastic polemic offers us the toolkit to combat their pervasive influence. Within the last few decades, there's been a trend in conditions of who handles knowledge and information. This speedy change has imperiled the way we think. Without pausing to consider the price, the planet has rushed to accept the merchandise and services of four titanic organizations. We shop with Amazon; socialize on Facebook; turn to Apple for entertainment; and rely on Google for information. These firms sell their efficiency and purport to help make the world a better place, but what they did instead is to permit an intoxicating level of daily convenience. As these businesses have expanded, marketing themselves as champions of individuality and pluralism, their algorithms have pressed us into conformity and laid waste materials to privacy. They have produced an unstable and thin culture of misinformation and put us on the path to a world without private contemplation, autonomous thought, or solitary introspection - a world without mind. In order to restore our internal lives, we must don't be coopted by these gigantic companies and understand the ideas that underpin their success. Elegantly tracing the intellectual record of computer research - from Descartes and the Enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand and the hippie origins of today's Silicon Valley - Foer exposes the dark underpinnings in our most idealistic dreams for technology. The organization ambitions of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, he argues, are trampling longstanding liberal ideals, especially intellectual property and privacy. That is a nascent stage in the full total automation and homogenization of social, politics, and intellectual life. By reclaiming our private authority over how we intellectually build relationships the world, we have the energy to stem the tide. On the line is nothing less than who we live and what we will become. There were monopolists in the past, but today's corporate and business giants have far more nefarious goals. They're monopolists who want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every nook in our decision making. As yet, few have grasped the absolute size of the risk. Foer explains not just the looming existential problems but the essential of resistance.
