From New York Times Book Review: â[A] memoir doubling as a rallying cry for privacy justice. . . . Goldberg chronicles in Nobodyâs Victim her battle for justice in a tone that is both take-no-prisoners and warmly gregarious . . . The cases she narrates are gut-wrenching, and her conversational approach lightens what could otherwise be…
From Joseph Turow (Robert Lewis Shayon Chair Professor, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania): âJulie Cohen presents a highly knowledgeable, nuanced analysis of the challenges that the twenty-first centuryâs digital environment presents to the legal and regulatory apparatus, which was built in the industrial age. Every page holds important insights, and every chapter…
âZuboffâs book is the information industryâs Silent Spring.â –Christopher Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley
From the Wall Street Journal: âIn âConfidential Confidential,â law professor Samantha Barbas recounts the inside story of the âlittle magazine that couldâ with drama, humor, and verveâŠMs. Barbas paces her terrific story well, and the book ends with her cogent analysis of Confidentialâs larger significance.â
From Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School): âThe store is a battleground for new contests over privacy and individual autonomy. This fact-filled book performs a genuine public service and should put every shopper on high alert.â
From Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania): âAnyone interested in the future of business should read this fascinating book as soon as possible. By now it is conventional wisdomâthanks in no small part to Mayer-Schönbergerâs previous bookâthat big data will transform the way firms operate. Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data…
From Arthur Molella (Smithsonian Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation): âThis masterly study challenges naĂŻve assumptions that characterize our twenty-first-century world of electronic hyperefficiency. Computers, big data, and artificial intelligence are too often allowed to supersede human judgment and indeed undermine our very self-confidence as human beings. Yet no electronic machine can…
From Times Higher Education: âIllustrated with examples from Broussardâs own work and experience, this is an intensely personal journey that gives a real sense of travelling with a friend. Her descriptions of hackathons and other aspects of start-up culture are honest and atmospheric, capturing the social as well as the technical aspects of the marketplace…
From Susan Athey (Stanford University): âPrediction Machines is a path-breaking book that focuses on what strategists and managers really need to know about the AI revolution. Taking a grounded, realistic perspective on the technology, the book uses principles of economics and strategy to understand how firms, industries, and management will be transformed by AI.â
From Henry Giroux (McMaster University): âStartling and brilliant⊠As Eubanks makes crystal clear, automation coupled with the new technologies of ethical abandonment and instrumental efficiency threaten not only the lives of millions who are viewed as disposable but also democracy itself. If you want to understand how this digital nightmare is reaching deep into the…