System Error - Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK LOOKING AT HOW BIG TECH IS OBSESSED WITH OPTIMIZATION -- AND HOW WE CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL

About the author

Jeremy M. Weinstein is a professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. During President Obama's first term, he served as Director for Development and Democracy on the National Security Council staff at the White House between 2009 and 2011. Rob Reich is professor of political science and professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He is the director of the Center for Ethics in Society and co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.Mehran Sahami is the director (and creator) of the Computer Science program at Stanford, the most popular major at the university (he is also an early Google engineer).

Summary

A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK LOOKING AT HOW BIG TECH IS OBSESSED WITH OPTIMIZATION -- AND HOW WE CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL

Foreword

A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK LOOKING AT HOW BIG TECH IS OBSESSED WITH OPTIMIZATION -- AND HOW WE CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL

Additional text

System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated. Best of all, the authors offer actual solutions for a reboot that are both timely and feasible. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America

Product details

• Authors: Rob Reich, Reich Rob, Mehran Sahami, Sahami Mehran, Jeremy Weinstein
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2021
• EAN: 9781529356700
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-5670-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics, computer science, Business ethics & social responsibility, Ethics & moral philosophy, Business ethics and social responsibility, Supercomputers