Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

“An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” ―Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch

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

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• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
• Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
• Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (The MIT Press)
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
• Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
• The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
• The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads