Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
240 pages
Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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 realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It’s time we change that.
In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use—and to demand more from the companies behind them.
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 behaving badly; most of which were already familiar and a bit less actionable.
