Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity Paperback – 9 May 2024

A postmortem of the thought of power as it is unfolding, changing its contours for the common people as well as those who wish to understand it but have no means to approach it.

A well researched book which speaks volumes about minute details from past to present till future. There is description of mechanics used in motor cars to digital sphere of computing to the present scenario of AI.The inception of the books begins with how the technology has come far in time, and as we flip through the pages we get to know about the basic history of computers to modern day computer machines. Now that we are in the era of generative AI, the book explains what holds further for the future of machines and technology.One may find this print useful as it connects the dots of major websites and search engines, from Amazon to Facebook to ChatGPT and much more on how they regulate their data and keep a track on the users, and how these conglomerate are protected by the various laws that shields them from any legal proceedings.Therefore one can check this book and gain an insightful meaning of technology from this read.

AI has come and technical Progress cannot be reversed.How to use AI wisely.Very contemporary.

Power and Progress is better viewed as a polemic against AI and big tech than as a work of academic scholarship. Its policy prescriptions are the same big-government solutions that progressives have been pushing for decades.