Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Tech giants worldwide -- 1. The increasing power of tech giants / Bradley Love -- 2. Social media has swallowed journalism / Emily Bell -- 3. Amazon has been the model of disruption / Susan Reda -- 4. The sharing economy fosters innovation / Lawrence H. Summers, Sarah Cannon -- 5. Tech giants are turning us into tech serfs / Martin Moore -- Chapter 2: Technology's mark on our world -- 1. Privacy may be a price we have to pay / Paul Levy -- 2. Combating online terrorist recruitment / Rami Alhames -- 3. Tech giants must take a stand for consumer protection / John Thornhill -- 4. Privacy and free speech are not mutually exclusive / George Brock -- 5. We must decide if our digital presence is the same nationally as globally / Luciano Floridi -- Chapter 3: Tech giants and corporate social responsibility -- 1. Tech giants are uniquely positioned to give back to society / Simon Morfit -- 2. Tech giants' political activism reveals opportunistic altruism / Kate Losse -- 3. Twitter's impact on the 2016 presidential election is unmistakable / Shontavia Johnson -- 4. Curating our online content creates long-term problems / Jon Martindale -- 5. Innovation should not sacrifice privacy and free speech / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- Chapter 4: Are we headed for a technocracy?-- 1. Technology is both extending and challenging the foundation of democracy / Pia Waugh -- 2. Rather than fearing artificial intelligence, we should drive it / Max Tegmark -- 3. Now is the time to decide what to do with artificial intelligence / Julia Bossmann -- 4. Public safety is more important than corporate loyalty / Robert Merkel -- 5. Tech giants would like to change our cities / Richard Waters -- For further discussion -- Organizations to contact.

Are tech giants the new robber barons of the digital age? Many governments and ordinary people are increasingly uncomfortable with the monopolistic might a small number of tech companies are amassing, the taxes they are avoiding, the data they are collecting, the privacy they are undermining, and the way they are functioning as extraterritorial powers beholden to no state and to no citizen or consumer. All sides of this super-charged debate are represented here, from those of the chieftains of Silicon Valley and EU regulators to FBI counterintelligence agents, scrappy open-source programmers, and ordinary computer users and digital consumers in an effort to illuminate the digital world we currently inhabit, the limits of its freedoms, and who owns and controls its future. --Amazon.

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