The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity - Couverture rigide

Wu, Tim

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ISBN 10 : 1847927114 ISBN 13 : 9781847927118

Editeur : Bodley Head, 2025

Synopsis

The Age of Extraction explores how today’s dominant tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality – urging us to recognize their influence and reclaim control to create a balanced economy that works for all.

'Insightful' CORY DOCTOROW
'Essential reading' KAREN HAO
'A how-to book on how we can achieve liberty' MATT STOLLER
'A passionate call for a fairer economy' DARON ACEMOGLU

Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data and attention from all of us. An economy driven by digital platforms and AI influence offers the potential to enrich us, and yet likewise threatens to marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap, and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better life for everyone? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism – or are we too late?

The Age of Extraction tells the story of an internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy in the 1990s and 2000s, only to aid the spread of autocracy instead. Tim Wu, the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase 'net neutrality', frames our current moment with lessons from recent history – from generative AI and predictive social data to the anti-monopoly and crypto movements. And, perhaps most importantly of all, Wu envisions a future where technological advances are able to serve the greatest possible good, for everyone.

Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for taking back control to achieve a better economic balance and prosperity for all.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tim Wu is Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School. He worked in the White House as special assistant to President Biden for technology and competition policy, and is the author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants. He currently splits his time between New York City and Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bodley Head
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847927114
• ISBN 13: 9781847927118
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible