From Mark Lemley, Stanford University: “A delightfully wide-ranging and eminently readable exploration of how laws, norms, technology, and our own thinking guide our behavior, and how we should think about it.”
From Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study: “Balancing individual freedoms and the common good is ever more critical in the velocity of today’s technologically mediated world. Gasser and Mayer-Schönberger brilliantly illustrate that it is the ballast of societal guardrails, in their variety and agility—and not brittle technology—that can protect what we hold most dear: our rights, liberties, and values. This indispensable book is an essential primer for our uncertain present and for achieving a just, democratic future.”