The internet was once imagined as a space for open exchange, but it has also become a battleground for influence. The Propaganda Network examines how state actors, private contractors, and opaque funding groups have used digital platforms to shape narratives, amplify division, and steer public opinion at scale.The book traces coordinated information campaigns across social media, messaging apps, and news ecosystems, drawing on investigative reports, leaked documents, and academic r...

Over the past two decades, a handful of technology companies have grown beyond national borders, legal systems, and traditional forms of regulation. Stateless examines how modern tech giants have evolved into global infrastructures that influence communication, commerce, and public life while often operating faster than the laws meant to govern them.The book traces the rise of platform economies, the expansion of digital marketplaces, and the gradual shift in power from st...

Every search, purchase, and late-night scroll leaves a trace.In 2012, an Austrian law student named Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him a copy of the data it held about him. What arrived was a printed file running to more than 1,200 pages. Messages he believed he had deleted were still there. Locations, timestamps, interactions stretching back years. He had never imagined that his ordinary online activity was being preserved in such detail.Neither had most people.

Open any social media app. Within minutes, something will provoke a reaction. That is not an accident.Outrage Machine investigates how recommendation systems learned to prioritise content that triggers the strongest emotions, and how anger became one of the most reliable currencies of the digital economy. Every click, share, and comment teaches the algorithm what holds attention. Divisive posts travel further. Misinformation gains traction. The loudest voices get amplified. Behind ...

Daniel is fourteen when he first fills a sack with cobalt at the edge of a pit in Kolwezi. He does not know where it will go. By the time it reaches its final destination, it will have passed through traders, refineries, and corporate networks spanning three continents, gaining value at every stage while its origin disappears entirely.Blood Minerals follows that journey. From the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo to trading firms, processing plants, and the policy rooms sha...

One promise. One dollar per token. Always.That promise made Tether the most important financial instrument that most people have never examined. Today, it underpins billions in daily cryptocurrency trading, functions as a de facto dollar across global exchanges, and operates without the audits, guarantees, or regulatory backstops that govern every comparable institution in traditional finance.This book follows the evidence — court filings, blockchain data, regulatory settle...

When Jack Dorsey banned a sitting American president from Twitter, the decision was made not in a courtroom or legislature — but inside a private company. It was a glimpse of a power shift that had been building for two decades.A small group of technology founders built platforms that reshaped how the world communicates, shops, and gathers information. Over time, that influence moved beyond markets and into the machinery of politics itself. The Tech Oligarchs traces how a handful o...

In a control room outside Las Vegas, a drone operator watches a figure move across a distant landscape. A decision must be made in seconds. Increasingly, that decision may not belong to a human being at all.Killer Algorithms enters the world of autonomous weapons, where engineers, generals, and policymakers are quietly building systems that can identify targets and launch attacks without waiting for human approval. It traces how a Navy drone swarm of 103 aircraft flew in formation ...

Andy Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the reader deep inside the workings of a major company in Only the Paranoid Survive.Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel became the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy for measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a compan...

" System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated." — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New AmericaA forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we ...

New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems-has increased by a whopping f...

Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth, while bypassing cumbersome institutional or industrial overhead. In The Platform Societ