Technically Wrong

Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

By: Sara Wachter-Boettcher

IMPACT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL ASPECTS TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING (SOCIAL ASPECTS)

Description

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It's time we change that.

In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use--and to demand more from the companies behind them.

A Wired Top Tech Book of the Year
A Fast Company Best Business and Leadership Book of the Year

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It's time we change that.

In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use--and to demand more from the companies behind them.

A Wired Top Tech Book of the Year
A Fast Company Best Business and Leadership Book of the Year

This Edition

Format
Paperback
Pages
240
Published
October 16, 2018
ISBN-13
9780393356045
Language
English
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

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