News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World
by Alan Rusbridger · 26 Nov 2020 · 371pp · 109,320 words
July 2018. <https://www.ft.com/content/d17623b6-85cd-11e8-96dd-fa565ec55929> Marriage, Madison and Lizzie Cernik. ‘FT investigation: The darker side of a British tech baron’. The Financial Times, 23 October 2019. <https://www.ft.com/content/afffb542-f577-11e9-b018-3ef8794b17c6> Marriage, Madison and Matthew Garrahan. ‘Martin Sorrell’s downfall
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas · 27 Aug 2018 · 296pp · 98,018 words
comes from an interview series called “Tastemakers,” published by the New York clothing boutique Otte (no longer available online). Danah Boyd’s critique of the tech barons is from her essay “It’s Not Cyberspace Anymore” (Points blog on Medium, February 2016). On the campaign against discrimination on Airbnb, see “Airbnb Has
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
the role of the nation-state, and give rise to semi-autonomous economies in a post-imperialist world,” fared less well. Like many Silicon Valley tech barons over the past forty years, Toffler underestimated the resilience of old political institutions, including bureaucracies and the nation-state. We particularly regret that we have
All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
subject to the same sort”: Laura Locke, “The Green-Tech Venture Capitalist,” Time, Oct. 23, 2006. 57. In 2006 VCs poured $727 million: Matt Richtel, “Tech Barons Take on New Project: Energy Policy,” New York Times, Jan. 29, 2007. 58. For his investment efforts: www.legalaffairs.org/issues/November-December-2005feature_skeel
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben · 15 Apr 2019
the Dr. No). But Perkins had noticed that the poorer people of San Francisco were demonstrating against the real estate takeover of their city by tech barons and venture capitalists like him—indeed, some unruly hooligans had dared to smash a piñata in the shape of one of the swank buses Google
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past and future (and to one another) instead of turned into obsolete software. And those seem to me profoundly conservative positions. Meanwhile, oil companies and tech barons strike me as deeply radical, willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere, eager to confer immortality. There is a native conservatism in human
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
by Rupert Darwall · 2 Oct 2017 · 451pp · 115,720 words
the cost of everything derived from hydrocarbons. Perhaps here we can discern a motive. Ostentatiously donning the cloak of green virtue diverts attention away from tech barons’ being targeted as the twenty-first-century’s robber barons. Seen this way, tech support for the Clean Power Plan is good business: a way
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of protecting the tech barons’ billions. It is, however, unambiguously bad for the business of America. Europe’s Energiewende is turning out to be a colossal engine of economic and
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words
Law pamphlet for the rich that called on them to invest their wealth in improving society—as a role model for our twenty-first-century tech barons. In business, Carnegie was anything but an angel. His steelworks were the sites of some of the most violent labor clashes of the late nineteenth
Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care About Inequality
by Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell · 23 May 2023
, a family of doctors from South America might be by many definitions well-off, but their income is minuscule compared with the fortunes of the tech barons of Palo Alto. Given both how laden and relative this issue is, it is easy to see why delimiting who is and who is not
Great North Road
by Peter F. Hamilton · 26 Sep 2012 · 1,266pp · 344,635 words
on command. Small enough and new enough with its quantum junction structure to be impervious to ordinary detection systems, even those of Beijing’s dark tech barons should prove ineffective against it, Ralph had said. Sid closed the locker door and left the macrobuilding. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2143 It was two o
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
you whiplash. Were they depressed kids in black turtlenecks, or happy teens in neon-colored “Frankie Says Relax” sweatshirts? Are they unemployed slackers or materialistic tech barons? Are they disconnected loners who eschew responsibilities, or Karens who put everything into their kids? Like every generation, Gen X contains multitudes, and changes with
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by Siddharth Kara · 30 Jan 2023 · 302pp · 96,609 words