How big tech wrecked the internet

Cory Doctorow’s new book explains how a voracious handful of unscrupulous tech firms ruined the internet by baiting new users with free access to useful services, monetizing them on behalf of business customers, then extracting every penny of value for themselves by ruining the user experience.

Worshiping technology

A new book – Tech Agnostic by Greg Epstein – argues that technology has become the world’s most powerful religion and needs a reformation already.

Here be monsters

Technology is developing fast – so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning – Homo Sapiens.