🏛️ Tech Regulation

Analyses of how governments and institutions are struggling to govern artificial intelligence, big tech monopolies, and digital privacy. These books map the urgent tension between innovation and accountability.

Virtual Society

by Herman Narula • 2022

Virtual worlds built civilization. The metaverse will fix what it broke: making us feel we matter.

3.40

288

🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy 👷 Future Of Work 📊 Virtual Economies 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation

Virtual Society

Virtual worlds built civilization. The metaverse will fix what it broke: making us feel we matter.

by Herman Narula 2022

3.40

288 ratings

🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy 👷 Future Of Work 📊 Virtual Economies 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation

Don't Be Evil

by Rana Foroohar • 2019

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

3.85

1k+

🏢 Big Tech Critique 🔒 Data Privacy 🧠 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy

Don't Be Evil

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

by Rana Foroohar 2019

3.85

1k+ ratings

🏢 Big Tech Critique 🔒 Data Privacy 🧠 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy

The Tech Coup

by Marietje Schaake • 2024

When tech companies became the state, democracy became a user agreement no one reads.

3.78

468

🏢 Corporate Power 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🔒 Digital Authoritarianism 🌐 Internet Governance ⚖️ Tech Accountability

The Tech Coup

When tech companies became the state, democracy became a user agreement no one reads.

by Marietje Schaake 2024

3.78

468 ratings

🏢 Corporate Power 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🔒 Digital Authoritarianism 🌐 Internet Governance ⚖️ Tech Accountability

The New Age of Sexism

by Laura Bates • 2025

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

4.26

12k+

🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice ⚠️ Rape Culture

The New Age of Sexism

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

by Laura Bates 2025

4.26

12k+ ratings

🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice ⚠️ Rape Culture

The Year in Tech 2022

by Harvard Business Review • 2021

Brain sensors at work. Doctor-prescribed apps. The tech trends reshaping business.

3.56

176

📊 Tech Strategy 🔮 Emerging Technology ⚖️ Ai Ethics ⚛️ Quantum Computing 🧠 Neurotechnology

The Year in Tech 2022

Brain sensors at work. Doctor-prescribed apps. The tech trends reshaping business.

by Harvard Business Review 2021

3.56

176 ratings

📊 Tech Strategy 🔮 Emerging Technology ⚖️ Ai Ethics ⚛️ Quantum Computing 🧠 Neurotechnology

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 🏢 Big Tech Critique

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 🏢 Big Tech Critique

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