A critical tech reading list for late 2024
Ten book recommendations to get you through the final months of the year
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Roundup: What the OpenAI funding round reveals about tech
Read to the end for a fun Cybertruck documentary
Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is
The Meta CEO’s embrace of open source is nothing more than an opportunistic move
Roundup: Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter?
Read to the end for one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard
Sam Altman doesn’t care about you
The OpenAI CEO wants to extend his life by 10 years, but doesn’t care the poor die 15 years earlier than the rich
Roundup: Eric Schmidt says the quiet part out loud
Read to the end for a disastrous Peter Thiel interview
What comes after the AI crash?
The end of the boom won’t end generative AI’s harms
Roundup: Don't buy the "Zuckessance"
Read to the end for a forthcoming tech book you might like
The Google monopoly ruling won’t save the internet
More competition won’t be enough to dismantle Silicon Valley’s power