Brace for a deep dive into the dangers tech leviathans Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon pose to human freedom and self-determination. The year 2012 was a time when clickbait was ascendant and few people understood (or cared about) the extent of personal data collection taking place. 🤔📖

Bouncing around the various reviews of World Without Mind, the book finds defenders and detractors, pro and con, like wading through a contentious Facebook comment thread. Author Franklin Foer is the former editor of the liberal magazine New Republic. He was hired in that role shortly after the magazine was bought by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes in 2012.