Move Fast and Break Things

By Jonathan Taplin,

Book cover of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

Book description

A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year'

LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the…

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1 author picked Move Fast and Break Things as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Although published several years ago, this book is a timely investigation about the power of big tech on so many aspects of our lives.

The book focuses to a great extent on the impacts on the music, book, and newspaper industries that have been significantly disrupted by the tech industry. But it also alerts to the larger implications, especially as tech becomes increasingly dominant in our economy, democracy, and lives. 

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