I believe this book has all the elements required for a good book discussion; well researched, well written and relevant. I’ve included a few reviews below.
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Review
“I’ve thrown around the word ‘Luddite’ often in my work, mainly as a cheap insult, so Brian Merchant’s rich and absorbing history of the movement was, for me, both a revelation and an embarrassment. The embarrassment is at how little I’d known about them, and how the lessons I’d taken from their effort were based on a silly caricature. The revelation, in Brian’s deft telling, is that technology never has to be inevitable, that we humans have agency over how we live with the machines, and that perhaps the best way to figure out what to do about the future is to look to the past.”―Farhad Manjoo, New York Times Opinion columnist.
“A rich and gripping account of a chronically misunderstood historical chapter, one with urgent relevance to our own time, as we once again pit humans against machines.”―Naomi Klein, New York Times Bestselling author of This Changes Everything
“Brian Merchant has pulled off a kind of temporal magic trick: He's told a two-century-old story with such resonant themes about technology, labor and human exploitation—and done it with such gripping, visceral detail and empathy—that it feels like it's about our future.”―Andy Greenberg, author of Sandworm and Tracers in the Dark
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