In his new book, 'World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech', former New Republic editor Franklin Foer offers a powerful critique of Silicon Valley. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
To many Americans, large technology firms embody much of what’s good about the modern world. Google holds the key to new depths of knowledge. Amazon is the white-knight savior of impulse shopping. Facebook builds the connective tissue to old friends and colleagues. Franklin Foer has a different... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The keynote address, a conversation between Franklin Foer and Andrew Keen, looked at how the mega-retailer has changed the dynamics by turing "the citizen" into "the consumer," and trying to position booksellers as "dinosaurs." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]