Re-Engineering Humanity

Selected as one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2018.         Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive analytics, and smart environments. They explain how the goal of designing programmable worlds goes hand in hand with engineering predictable and programmable people. Detailing new frameworks, provocative case studies, and mind-blowing thought experiments, Frischmann and Selinger reveal hidden connections between fitness trackers, electronic contracts, social media platforms, robotic companions, fake news, autonomous cars, and more. This powerful analysis should be read by anyone interested in understanding exactly how technology threatens the future of our society, and what we can do now to build something better.          Check out the Interview and Excerpt published by The Economist: economist.com/open-future/2018/10/24/is-technology-re-engineering-humanity

• Privacy as Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age
• Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
• Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
• The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
• Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
• Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
• The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation