Brian Merchant
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how the inception of the iPhone has transformed society and skyrocketed Apple to the most valuable company in the world, detailing how the most current technological advances have become inseparable to everyday life.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today"--Dust jacket flap.
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized...