Tech Criticism

Your Face Belongs to Us

A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill
Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it

“The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new... Read more

Palo Alto

A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris
Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
Length: 28 hours 19 minutes

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California created the world as we know it  Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high... Read more

Atlas of AI

Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford
Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence—from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom

What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate... Read more

Blockchain Chicken Farm

And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

FSG Originals x Logic

By: Xiaowei Wang
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world

In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people... Read more

Chokepoint Capitalism

How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

By: Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media

Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the... Read more

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By: Shoshana Zuboff
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 24 hours 16 minutes

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the... Read more

README.txt

A Memoir

By: Chelsea Manning
Narrated by: Chelsea Manning
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

“I really didn't know anything about Chelsea Manning or her whistleblowing and activism. This book gives explicit insight into what was going on with her and why she made the decisions she did. It left me wondering more about her life after her incarceration ended. Read more

Survival of the Richest

Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

By: Douglas Rushkoff
Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: They want to leave us all behind.
Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk.
The topic? How to survive the “Event”: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of... Read more

Silicon Values

The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism

By: Jillian York
Narrated by: Megan Tusing
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the... Read more

Subprime Attention Crisis

Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

FSG Originals x Logic

By: Tim Hwang
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

From FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation

In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise... Read more