Books on Big Tech

Far more than just a search engine or a social platform, Big Tech knows everything about you and makes decisions about what you do and do not see. And with a near monopoly on digital advertising they’re stifling the free market as they push their agenda forward.

If you’re looking to get more educated on the dangers of Big Tech, we have some must read books for you to explore.

Books on Big Tech

The Tyranny of Big Tech

The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans’ First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke.

Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple – once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom – have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power.

Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations – controlled by the robber barons of the modern era – are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades.

To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives’ mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one, and curbing the influence of corporate and political elites.

Big Tech and its allies do not deal gently with those who cross them, and Senator Hawley proudly bears his own battle scars. But hubris is dangerous. The time is ripe to overcome the tyranny of Big Tech by reshaping the business and legal landscape of the digital world.

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

A disturbing and eye opening book, Franklin Foer explains the existential thread that Big Tech poses to a society built on the freedom of the individual.

Utilizing the allure of convenience and the lie that their goal is to make the world a better place, companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon seek to know everything about you and use that information to control you.

This runs at odds with a society that values privacy, independence and intellectual property rights. And the battle between these forces has only just begun.

Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech

In the early days of Google the slogan “Don’t be evil,” was help up as the company’s highest corporate goal. It spoke to a utopian vision for the future, with the underlying idea that Google’s technology would transform the world into a better place, with more freedom, safety and money for all.

This book explores the pandoras box that Google’s founding created, with a world that’s now filled with digital surveillance, a lack of privacy, the rapid spread of misinformation and a near monopoly on advertising.

Written by long-time business and tech columnist Rana Foroohar, she details how companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon created the world in which we live, making untold billions off your data. The argues that they are profiting off information that, ultimately, belongs to you.

More than a critique, she offers a solution of how we can maintain many of these benefits while retaining our autonomy and protecting ourselves from the evils of Big Tech.

Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

Diving into the political implications of Big Tech’s control on our lives, Mollie Hemingway examines the threat of these tech monopolies in the context of the 2020 election.

A three-pronged approach by the Democratic party, this book details how a public health crisis was exploited to change electoral rules, while the corporate media colluded with Big Tech to silence dissent and quite literally ban individuals and corporations from talking about evidence of corruption within Biden’s family. (This info is now even more shocking with the acknowledgement that media companies and tech giants now freely admit they had no reason to doubt the voracity of the “Laptop from Hell“).

Big Tech Tyrants: How Silicon Valley’s Stealth Practices Addict Teens, Silence Speech, and Steal Your Privacy

More powerful than any government official or military leader, the CEOs of a few Silicon Valley tech companies control your life.

They do so more effectively than any tyrant in history and they do it all under the guise of making your life better.

In reality, these Big Tech tyrants mine your data to exploit your secrets and get rich off of them. And that’s hardly the worst of what’s going on.

Floyd Brown and Todd Cefaratti dig in deep to detail what’s going on inside the Big Tech companies that run you life. For anyone who wants to know exactly what they do and how they do it, this book is your guide.