![]() The lives of Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin leap from the pages of World Without Mind, as Foer conjures concise, insightful psychological profiles of each mover-and-shaker, detailing how they've mixed utopianism and monopolism into an insidious whole. Then again, they would have to be, considering the thrust of World Without Mind: the alarming assertion that democracy and technology have collided, and democracy has come out on the losing end.įoer accepts the widespread definition of tech's Big Four as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google, but he focuses mainly on the last three. Hughes, after all, is pilloried at length in the book, as are the founders of Amazon and Google. It's hard not to view Foer's new book, World Without Mind, as first and foremost a retaliatory broadside against Hughes and his ilk - that ilk being the nation's tech elite. He ousted Foer in order to assume the helm himself, a move that provoked a highly publicized mass exodus from The New Republic's bullpen. The venerable liberal magazine had been purchased two years earlier by Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes. ![]() Twitter: Foer's departure in 2014 from The New Republic, where he'd served as editor-in-chief for seven years, was not a peaceful one. ![]() Jason Heller is a Hugo Award-winning editor and author of the forthcoming book Strange Stars (Melville House). Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title World Without Mind Subtitle The Existential Threat of Big Tech Author Franklin Foer ![]()
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