Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science - from Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand and the hippie origins of today's Silicon Valley- Franklin Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology and reveals the existential threat posed by big tech. With this brilliant polemic he gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017