Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?

Tom Wheeler's book Techlash connects the experiences of the late 19th century's industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age, warning that today is not the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and calling for a new era of public interest oversight to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2023
Publisher: Brookings Institution

Tom Wheeler's book, "Techlash," has been praised by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews as a powerful primer on the need to regulate big tech and a solid plan for controlling tech giants. It has been featured on Barack Obama's list of What I'm Reading on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence. Wheeler's book connects the experiences of the late 19th century's industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century's digital Gilded Age. He warns that today is not the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial-era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised, and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.

Weight: 502g
Dimension: 160 x 236 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780815739937