Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech / Sara Wachter-Boettcher.

"A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products--and harm us all. Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why all these digital products are designed the w...

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Main Author: Wachter-Boettcher, Sara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to the machine
  • Culture misfit
  • Normal people
  • Select one
  • Delighted to death
  • Tracked, tagged, and targeted
  • Algorithmic inequity
  • Built to break
  • Meritocracy now, meritocracy forever
  • Technically dangerous.