🏢 Big Tech Critique

Sharp-eyed examinations of how Silicon Valley's giants concentrate power, erode privacy, and reshape society in ways both visible and insidious. These books arm readers with the language to question the platforms they depend on.

Empire of AI

by Karen Hao • 2025

The AI revolution runs on $2-an-hour labor, stolen water, and a marketing trick from 1956.

4.02

14k+

🏙️ Silicon Valley 🤖 Ai Ethics 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⛏️ Extractive Tech 🧮 Effective Altruism

Empire of AI

The AI revolution runs on $2-an-hour labor, stolen water, and a marketing trick from 1956.

by Karen Hao 2025

4.02

14k+ ratings

🏙️ Silicon Valley 🤖 Ai Ethics 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⛏️ Extractive Tech 🧮 Effective Altruism

Atlas of AI

by Kate Crawford • 2020

Artificial intelligence is not just code. It runs on mines, warehouses, and state surveillance.

3.93

3k+

🔍 Tech Criticism ⛏️ Extractive Capitalism 📊 Data Ethics ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 👷 Labor And Automation

Atlas of AI

Artificial intelligence is not just code. It runs on mines, warehouses, and state surveillance.

by Kate Crawford 2020

3.93

3k+ ratings

🔍 Tech Criticism ⛏️ Extractive Capitalism 📊 Data Ethics ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 👷 Labor And Automation

Careless People

by Sarah Wynn-Williams • 2025

Facebook's growth playbook from the inside: trade free speech, erode privacy, ignore the bodies.

4.12

137k+

📢 Corporate ExposéS 📱 Social Media Platforms ⚖️ Tech Ethics 🚫 Content Moderation 🔍 Corporate Power

Careless People

Facebook's growth playbook from the inside: trade free speech, erode privacy, ignore the bodies.

by Sarah Wynn-Williams 2025

4.12

137k+ ratings

📢 Corporate ExposéS 📱 Social Media Platforms ⚖️ Tech Ethics 🚫 Content Moderation 🔍 Corporate Power

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier • 2013

Free services enter the internet. Middle-class jobs leave. A plan to reverse the pump.

3.77

4k+

💻 Digital Economy 🔐 Data Ownership 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🌐 Decentralization 😟 Internet Pessimism

Who Owns the Future?

Free services enter the internet. Middle-class jobs leave. A plan to reverse the pump.

by Jaron Lanier 2013

3.77

4k+ ratings

💻 Digital Economy 🔐 Data Ownership 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🌐 Decentralization 😟 Internet Pessimism

Don't Be Evil

by Rana Foroohar • 2019

The internet promised openness. What arrived was surveillance, addiction, and monopoly.

3.85

1k+

🔒 Data Privacy 🧠 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy 🏛️ Tech Regulation

Don't Be Evil

The internet promised openness. What arrived was surveillance, addiction, and monopoly.

by Rana Foroohar 2019

3.85

1k+ ratings

🔒 Data Privacy 🧠 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy 🏛️ Tech Regulation

World Without Mind

by Franklin Foer • 2017

A counterculture dream of global harmony became a corporate machine for total surveillance.

3.63

2k+

🧱 Monopoly Power 🤖 Algorithmic Control 📱 Attention Economy 🏪 Cultural Homogenization ✊ Tech Resistance

World Without Mind

A counterculture dream of global harmony became a corporate machine for total surveillance.

by Franklin Foer 2017

3.63

2k+ ratings

🧱 Monopoly Power 🤖 Algorithmic Control 📱 Attention Economy 🏪 Cultural Homogenization ✊ Tech Resistance

The Age of Extraction

by Tim Wu • 2025

Tech platforms now extract wealth from everyone. History shows where that concentration leads.

3.89

1k+

🏗️ Platform Economics ⚖️ Antitrust Policy 💰 Extractive Capitalism 👁️ Attention Economy 📊 Surveillance Capitalism

The Age of Extraction

Tech platforms now extract wealth from everyone. History shows where that concentration leads.

by Tim Wu 2025

3.89

1k+ ratings

🏗️ Platform Economics ⚖️ Antitrust Policy 💰 Extractive Capitalism 👁️ Attention Economy 📊 Surveillance Capitalism

Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology

by Edward H. Spence • 2021

We're building superintelligence without a control plan. Stoicism has one.

4.50

🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🤖 Ai Ethics 🎯 Ai Alignment 👀 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Regulation

Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology

We're building superintelligence without a control plan. Stoicism has one.

by Edward H. Spence 2021

4.50

2 ratings

🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🤖 Ai Ethics 🎯 Ai Alignment 👀 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Regulation

Our Biggest Fight

by Frank H. McCourt • 2024

Your mind is the product, and the price is democracy. A new protocol offers a buyback.

4.15

💰 Data Monopolies ⏳ Attention Economy 🧠 Addictive Design ⚠️ Algorithmic Harms 📱 Social Media Harms

Our Biggest Fight

Your mind is the product, and the price is democracy. A new protocol offers a buyback.

by Frank H. McCourt 2024

4.15

27 ratings

💰 Data Monopolies ⏳ Attention Economy 🧠 Addictive Design ⚠️ Algorithmic Harms 📱 Social Media Harms

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