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| Title | : | Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech |
| Author | : | Sara Wachter-Boettcher |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : | Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech ISBN |
| Edition Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 pages pages |
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech Reviews
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Wachter-Boettcher's book on understanding the exclusionary power and privilege of technology is must-read for anyone who works in technology or with technology (which yes, means the vast majority of us). She moves through a variety of technologies, platforms, and systems to show how wh...
Concise and motivating (if depressing). Should be required reading for everyone in tech. ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Wachter-Boettcher's book on understanding the exclusionary power and privilege of technology is must-read for anyone who works in technology or with technology (which yes, means the vast majority of us). She moves through a variety of technologies, platforms, and systems to show how wh...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Wachter-Boettcher's book on understanding the exclusionary power and privilege of technology is must-read for anyone who works in technology or with technology (which yes, means the vast majority of us). She moves through a variety of technologies, platforms, and systems to show how wh...
Concise and motivating (if depressing). Should be required reading for everyone in tech. ...
This scathing critique of the tech industry and its techniques is both informative and hair-raising. Wachter-Boettcher winningly posits that from top (industry giants like Facebook) to bottom (smaller, niche companies), services rely on finely crafted promises of ease, interconnectedne...
A really good book covering the biases in technology, algorithms, and problems with Silicon Valley. The first half seemed more practical and applicable around forms biases and design you might not think about. The second half of the book was good, but around news stories of tech firms ...
Originally published at https://timkadlec.com/read/2018/techn... ------ Last year I read "Fifty Inventions That Shaped The Modern Economy" by Tim Hartford. My favorite question that he raised repeatedly was about who benefits from what we build, and more importantly, who loses.So whe...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Wachter-Boettcher's book on understanding the exclusionary power and privilege of technology is must-read for anyone who works in technology or with technology (which yes, means the vast majority of us). She moves through a variety of technologies, platforms, and systems to show how wh...
Concise and motivating (if depressing). Should be required reading for everyone in tech. ...
This scathing critique of the tech industry and its techniques is both informative and hair-raising. Wachter-Boettcher winningly posits that from top (industry giants like Facebook) to bottom (smaller, niche companies), services rely on finely crafted promises of ease, interconnectedne...
A really good book covering the biases in technology, algorithms, and problems with Silicon Valley. The first half seemed more practical and applicable around forms biases and design you might not think about. The second half of the book was good, but around news stories of tech firms ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Wachter-Boettcher's book on understanding the exclusionary power and privilege of technology is must-read for anyone who works in technology or with technology (which yes, means the vast majority of us). She moves through a variety of technologies, platforms, and systems to show how wh...
Concise and motivating (if depressing). Should be required reading for everyone in tech. ...
This scathing critique of the tech industry and its techniques is both informative and hair-raising. Wachter-Boettcher winningly posits that from top (industry giants like Facebook) to bottom (smaller, niche companies), services rely on finely crafted promises of ease, interconnectedne...
A really good book covering the biases in technology, algorithms, and problems with Silicon Valley. The first half seemed more practical and applicable around forms biases and design you might not think about. The second half of the book was good, but around news stories of tech firms ...
Originally published at https://timkadlec.com/read/2018/techn... ------ Last year I read "Fifty Inventions That Shaped The Modern Economy" by Tim Hartford. My favorite question that he raised repeatedly was about who benefits from what we build, and more importantly, who loses.So whe...
I received this an an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a review. Exactly as the title says, this book outlines everything wrong with technology in today's society - namely our most used apps and social networking websites. There is so much relevant information in this book - h...
Deceptively simple book. We all know that tech is sexist and cares more about selling our info to advertisers than about our experiences using it. We know that design is more about looks than substance. Wachter-Boettcher lays out the evidence we already know, and adds in the stuff we m...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Wachter-Boettcher's book on understanding the exclusionary power and privilege of technology is must-read for anyone who works in technology or with technology (which yes, means the vast majority of us). She moves through a variety of technologies, platforms, and systems to show how wh...
Concise and motivating (if depressing). Should be required reading for everyone in tech. ...
This scathing critique of the tech industry and its techniques is both informative and hair-raising. Wachter-Boettcher winningly posits that from top (industry giants like Facebook) to bottom (smaller, niche companies), services rely on finely crafted promises of ease, interconnectedne...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Wachter-Boettcher's book is a relatively thorough introduction to the many sins of the majority white, majority male silicon valley. Some of her anecdotes were so cringe-worthy, I felt a little guilty for reading them, like I was driving too slowly past a car accident, gawking. The cha...
This is one of those books that I hope gets made into mandatory reading in STEM courses. It does a little good job of highlighting a lot of the recent problems with the current state of "tech" and the dangerous place it's in right now. It was kind of weird to read something talking ...
Must read for anyone who creates tech products - any product, really. Wachter-Boettcher tells story after story of how tech is only as inclusive, useful, and fair as the ideas behind it. "Because, no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they?re nothing but ad...
This book doesn't really cover anything new, if you've been following conversations about bias in technology in recent years. However, that really isn't a mark against it, since it's trying to be an introduction to the topic rather than an expansive deep dive. It's a really great prime...
This book is a must read for anyone who uses technology in their daily lives. Sara's writing is so approachable and demystifies tech with examples of how biases in applications affect all of us. It was refreshing to read such an honest critique of the tech-focused world we live in. I c...
A really important look into the biases built into the tech that permeates our lives. Insightful anecdotes and important points about the need for ethics and diversity in the tech industry. As someone in that space already, most of it wasn?t new, but I?m glad the book exists! I hop...
Technology is now the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds our planet together. But the tech industry is failing all of us in myriads of ways. This book gives a great summary of the problems of technology and how they came to be. Recommended: for everyone who ...
Insightful and highly readable. None of the examples used will come as a surprise to anyone who?s been following tech stories for the last few years, but the author draws a neat through line that bring the problems into sharper focus. ...
This isn't the first book I've read about big data and the algorithms behind the technology that works in every facet of our lives can work against us. What was new for me about this book was the discussion on the culture of tech companies that is often sexist and racist. Things like t...
I feel like pretty much everyone should read this book. Will definitely think about some aspects of technology differently having done so. ...
This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue. Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely. But even...
Pretty good look with examples/data at how/why the current SV companies bias their apps towards 'young Caucasian males' and what companies should do to fix this. ...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how tech culture affects all of our lives. ...
CD, this is a fascinating read that I borrowed from my friend Grace. It looks into the ways our technology has been created with less than the majority audience in mind. It's not written in academic jargon, which I appreciate?Wachter-Boettcher clearly wanted her text to be understood...
Wachter-Boettcher's book on understanding the exclusionary power and privilege of technology is must-read for anyone who works in technology or with technology (which yes, means the vast majority of us). She moves through a variety of technologies, platforms, and systems to show how wh...
Concise and motivating (if depressing). Should be required reading for everyone in tech. ...
This scathing critique of the tech industry and its techniques is both informative and hair-raising. Wachter-Boettcher winningly posits that from top (industry giants like Facebook) to bottom (smaller, niche companies), services rely on finely crafted promises of ease, interconnectedne...
A really good book covering the biases in technology, algorithms, and problems with Silicon Valley. The first half seemed more practical and applicable around forms biases and design you might not think about. The second half of the book was good, but around news stories of tech firms ...
Originally published at https://timkadlec.com/read/2018/techn... ------ Last year I read "Fifty Inventions That Shaped The Modern Economy" by Tim Hartford. My favorite question that he raised repeatedly was about who benefits from what we build, and more importantly, who loses.So whe...
I received this an an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a review. Exactly as the title says, this book outlines everything wrong with technology in today's society - namely our most used apps and social networking websites. There is so much relevant information in this book - h...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn't want to be an inadvertent dude-bro. Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter-Boettcher weaves a challenging narrat...
A good and short read. Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet - the author's alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female/gays/transgender/nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increa...
Recommended reading on the current (very current) state of the tech industry. Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuses more on programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases i...
I want to qualify my rating of this book: If you haven?t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five-star recommendation. However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I enc...
This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline. Wachter-Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetu...
I won this book in a giveaway. I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn't fall into any of these traps. The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened...
Some parts of it dragged, but overall, it was terrifying. I thought it made especially interesting points about the necessity of training algorithms with unbiased training data so as not to perpetuate past injustices, the myth of the "tech industry" monoculture, and the way free speech...
Well . . . This is another one of those funny books that is sort of a ?5? and sort of a ?3.? The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are (not necessarily intentionally) biased. The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of t...
I'm so grateful to have received a free ARC of Technically Wrong! The 3-star rating was hard to decide and isn't reflective of my full range of feelings. That's why the review that follows will be massively long. First off, the minor typos and technical errors, likely due to it bei...
