Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives
"A valuable primer on this moment where humans are deciding how much power over their lives they give to monopolies and algorithms." —DAVE EGGERS, bestselling author of The Circle

Which Side of History's offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future.

Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more.

The essays focus on the extraordinary impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, democracy, climate change, and mental health.

This groundbreaking book challenges opinion leaders and the broader public to take action to improve technology's effects on our lives.

• Featuring notable journalists, engineers, entrepreneurs, novelists, activists, filmmakers, business leaders, scholars, and researchers, including: Thomas Friedman, Kara Swisher, Michelle Alexander, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jenna Wortham, Cameron Kasky, Howard Gardner, and Tristan Harris.
• Explores the ethical behavior of Big Tech, or the lack thereof.
• Offers roadmaps for constructive change and thought-provoking perspectives.

With the rise of cyberbullying and hate speech online, issues around climate change and technology, and the "move fast and break things" mentality of tech culture, Which Side of History's will urge readers to draw the line.

• This book will help shape the conversations we have around technology in our society and our future for years to come.
• A smart gift for anyone who approaches tech and the future with a healthy skepticism
• Edited by James P. Steyer, the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media.
• Add it to the shelf with books like Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
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Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives
"A valuable primer on this moment where humans are deciding how much power over their lives they give to monopolies and algorithms." —DAVE EGGERS, bestselling author of The Circle

Which Side of History's offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future.

Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more.

The essays focus on the extraordinary impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, democracy, climate change, and mental health.

This groundbreaking book challenges opinion leaders and the broader public to take action to improve technology's effects on our lives.

• Featuring notable journalists, engineers, entrepreneurs, novelists, activists, filmmakers, business leaders, scholars, and researchers, including: Thomas Friedman, Kara Swisher, Michelle Alexander, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jenna Wortham, Cameron Kasky, Howard Gardner, and Tristan Harris.
• Explores the ethical behavior of Big Tech, or the lack thereof.
• Offers roadmaps for constructive change and thought-provoking perspectives.

With the rise of cyberbullying and hate speech online, issues around climate change and technology, and the "move fast and break things" mentality of tech culture, Which Side of History's will urge readers to draw the line.

• This book will help shape the conversations we have around technology in our society and our future for years to come.
• A smart gift for anyone who approaches tech and the future with a healthy skepticism
• Edited by James P. Steyer, the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media.
• Add it to the shelf with books like Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
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"A valuable primer on this moment where humans are deciding how much power over their lives they give to monopolies and algorithms." —DAVE EGGERS, bestselling author of The Circle

Which Side of History's offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future.

Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more.

The essays focus on the extraordinary impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, democracy, climate change, and mental health.

This groundbreaking book challenges opinion leaders and the broader public to take action to improve technology's effects on our lives.

• Featuring notable journalists, engineers, entrepreneurs, novelists, activists, filmmakers, business leaders, scholars, and researchers, including: Thomas Friedman, Kara Swisher, Michelle Alexander, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jenna Wortham, Cameron Kasky, Howard Gardner, and Tristan Harris.
• Explores the ethical behavior of Big Tech, or the lack thereof.
• Offers roadmaps for constructive change and thought-provoking perspectives.

With the rise of cyberbullying and hate speech online, issues around climate change and technology, and the "move fast and break things" mentality of tech culture, Which Side of History's will urge readers to draw the line.

• This book will help shape the conversations we have around technology in our society and our future for years to come.
• A smart gift for anyone who approaches tech and the future with a healthy skepticism
• Edited by James P. Steyer, the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media.
• Add it to the shelf with books like Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781797205168
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication date: 10/13/2020
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

James P. Steyer is the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media, the nation's leading independent nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a powerful voice for kids and families in the 21st century. Steyer is an expert on children's media and education in the United States and an award-winning consulting professor at Stanford University. Steyer is also the nationally acclaimed author of Talking Back to Facebook and The Other Parent.

Table of Contents

Introduction James P. Steyer xi

Part 1 History is Watching

"The Greatest Propaganda Machine in History" Sacha Baron Cohen 3

"Be Paranoid" Kara Swisher 6

"The Known Unknown" Shoshana Zuboff 11

"When Data Drives Decisions" Michael Bloomberg 25

"Tech, Heal Thyself" Ellen Pao 31

"We Need a New Capitalism, Based on Trust" Marc Benioff 41

"Most Tech Companies Don't Care" Nicholas D. Kristof Sheryl WuDunn 54

"An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg" Aaron Sorkin 61

"Technology and Social Connection" Vivek Murthy 64

Part 2 How Tech is Hurting Kids

"Kids Interrupted: How Social Media Derails Adolescent Development" Madeline Levine 77

"Big Tech Failed My Generation" Cameron Kasky 86

"The New Normal" Willow Bay 90

"Why Section 230 Hurts Kids and What to Do about It" Bruce Reed James P. Steyer 94

"Raising Our Children in Two Worlds" Sissi Cancino 103

"Using Technology to Boost Kids' Brain Development" Chelsea Clinton 106

"What, Me Worry? The Rise of Stealth Parenting" Julie Lythcott-Haims 110

"Is This the Culture That We Want?" Jennifer Siebel Newsom 116

Part 3 A Threat to Democracy?

"Bolstering Democracy's Immune System" Craig Newmark 123

"Reclaiming Democracy" Marietje Schaake 127

"Using Technology to Defeat Democracy" LaTosha Brown 133

"The Assault on Civil Discourse and an Informed Electorate" Senator Mark Warner 136

"Repairing a Fractured America" Lawrence Lessig 143

"Technology for Global Good" Khaled Hosseini 146

"The Era of Fake Video Begins" Franklin Foer 151

"The Informality Machine" Yuval Levin 158

Part 4 Where Big Tech Went Wrong

"The Thief in Our Pockets: The Dark Side of Smart Tech" Laurie Santos 167

"We're All Connected but No One's in Charge" Thomas Friedman 173

"Technology Can Augment Our Humanity or Consume It" Arianna Huffington 178

"Shock Therapy" Tim Wu 183

"Tech and Creative Destruction" Jonathan Taplin 189

"Mad Men and Math Men" Ken Auletta 195

"The Three Sacreds-and Their Disruptions" Howard Gardner 204

Part 5 Technology and Race

"The New Jim Code" Ruha Benjamin 211

"Closing the Digital Divide" Geoffrey Canada 215

"The Newest Jim Crow" Michelle Alexander 218

"Technology, Incfusiveness, Structural Racism, and Silicon Valley" Theodore M. Shaw 223

"Technically Racist" Shaun R. Harper 226

Part 6 Doing Good, Not Evil

"Inside Cult 2.0" Renée DiResta 233

"Transforming the Attention Economy" Tristan Harris 239

"How Technology Can Humanize Education" Sal Khan 249

"Making Mischief" Carissa Carter Scott Doorley David Kelley 254

"Has Coronavirus Made the Internet Better?" Jenna Wortham 263

"Making Internet Platforms Accountable" Roger McNamee 267

"Restructuring the Tech Economy" Jaron Lanier 277

"Rejecting the Sirens of the 'Friction-Free' World" Sherry Turkle 281

"Unintended Side Effects: Social Media, Walled Gardens, and the Erosion of Democracy" John Hennessy 285

"The Change in the Nature of Change" James G. Coulter 292

"Are Facebook, Google, and Amazon the New Tobacco Industry?" Jeff Goodby 302

Acknowledgments 311

Endnotes 313

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