Name: Pax Technica
ISBN: 9780300199475

Philip N. Howard

A technology expert describes a possible future, and its repercussions in the area of privacy, social control and political manipulation, of a world where more and more things, like eyeglasses, thermostats and home security systems are reliant on the Internet.

How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free Or Lock Us Up

Pax Technica

Maggie Delano

This book was not good. It wasn't really about the Internet of Things. Instead, it was mostly about mobile phone and social media usage in countries outside the United States. This would have been fine, except the book also jumps all over the place and the author inserts random self-congratulatory examples into the text. There was no coherent structure, and the arguments the author makes completely lack nuance or depth. I read it to the end hoping to glean something insightful out of it, but that did not happen.

Pax Technica How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free Or Lock Us Up