SILICON STATES: THE POWER AND POLITICS OF BIG TECH AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR FUTURE BY LUCIE GREENE
.If our faith in governments and its institutions are eroding, who is poised to take over? Big Tech?that?s Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook?have done a very good job at making us believe they?re friendly egalitarian democratizers, so should they fill the gap, take the reins and assume responsibility? After all, they?re pro-LGBT, pro-sustainability, pro-social good. Not so fast, warns world-renown futurist Lucie Greene. Via candid interviews with corporate leaders, influential venture capitalists, scholars, journalists, activists, she explores exactly what?s at stake if we continue to let the largely unregulated Big Tech determine our futures.
