World Without Mind : : the Existential Threat of big Tech

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Technology & Engineering / Foer, Franklin
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Section I. The monopolists of mind -- 1. The valley is whole, the world is one -- 2. The Google theory of history -- 3. Mark Zuckerberg's war on free will -- Jeff Bezos disrupts knowledge -- 5. Keepers of the big gate in the sky -- 6. Big Tech's smoke-filled room -- Section II. World without mind -- 7. The virality virus -- 8. Death of the author -- Section III. Take back the mind -- 9. In search of the angel of data -- 10. The organic mind -- 11. The paper rebellion.

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An illuminating warning; hopefully not too late. submitted by terpsichore17 on July 10, 2018, 2:22pm Heir to Neil Postman, if not as profound. Better at diagnosing the problems of Big Data than offering solutions (though, in fairness, any solution must be counter-cultural, labor-intensive, and small-batch in comparison to using those tools so freely given by GAFA).

Further thoughts here: https://egotistsclub.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/review-world-without-mind/