Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-08-12
Books mentioned on Is Facebook Zucked? - Roger McNamee - #093
Roger McNamee is a businessman, investor, musician and founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. Roger has had a front seat to the biggest developments in Silicon Valley for the last 30 years and this culminated with his time as an early investor and key advisor to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff examines how major technology corporations collect and monetize personal data, fundamentally altering society and human autonomy.
Recommended“earlier this year a professor from Harvard Business School names Shoshanna subha published a book called the age of surveillance captain it actually came out in Europe in the fall of last year but it came out in the States in January and it changed our lives because Shoshanna has been studying Google for more than a decade and she”
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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a foundational 1776 text in classical economics by the Scottish thinker widely seen as the father of modern economics, exploring the mechanics of free markets, national productivity, and division of labor.
Discussed“I really feel strongly about this that this book is to the 21st century what Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was to the 18th and 19th”
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Zucked
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Crisis by Roger McNamee is a revealing insider account that exposes the hidden societal, political, and psychological costs of the platform's unprecedented growth.
Recommended“link to hooked on Amazon and I advise you to go and check out”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and I've written a book called sucked waking up to the facebook catastrophe which has been a platform for activism”