The Information Trade (How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our Rights, and Transforms Our World)

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In this timely, provocative, and ultimately hopeful book, a widely respected government and tech expert reveals how Facebook, Google, Amazon, Tesla, and other tech giants areĀ disrupting the way the world works, and outlines the growing risk they pose to our future if we do not act to contain them.

Todayā€™s major technology companiesā€”Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, and othersā€”wield more power than national governments. Because of their rising influence, Alexis Wichowski, a former press official for the State Department during the Obama administration, has re-branded these major tech companies ā€œnet states.ā€

In this comprehensive, engaging, and prescriptive book, she considers their growing and unavoidable influence in our lives, showing in eye-opening detail how these net states are conquering countries, disrupting reality, and jeopardizing our futureā€”and what we can do to regulate and reform the industry before it does irreparable harm to the way we think, how we act, and how weā€™re governed. Combining original reporting and insights drawn from more than 100 interviews with technology and government insiders, including Microsoft president Brad Smith, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the former Federal Trade Commission chair under President Obama, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology , and the managing director of Jigsawā€”Googleā€™s Department of Counterterrorism against extremis and cyber-attacksā€”The Information Trade explores what happens when we cede our power to them, willingly trading our personal freedom and individual autonomy for an easy, plugged-in existence.

Neither an industry apologist or fearmonger, Wichowski reminds us that we are not helpless victims; we still control our relationship with the technologies and the companies behind them. Most important, she shows us how we can curtail and control net states in practical, actionable waysā€”and makes urgently clear whatā€™s at stake if we donā€™t.

This book title, The Information Trade (How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our Rights, and Transforms Our World), ISBN: 9780062888983, by Alexis Wichowski, published by HarperCollins (February 11, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Alexis Wichowski
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
304
Publisher:
HarperCollins (February 11, 2020)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780062888983
ISBN-10:
0062888986
Weight:
16.16oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9" x 1.01"
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32
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