An excerpt from the Techlash Book as a gift to my fellow geeks. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. — In the mid-2000s, the glorious era of computer magazines came to an end. The tech geeks that were computer magazines’ subscribers in the 1980s and the 1990s, and made them a huge economic success, moved to read updates online. The younger readers, who were born in the Internet era, did…

An excerpt from the Techlash Book Cambridge Analytica’s “firestorm” Prior to this crisis, Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal challenge” for 2018 was to fix important issues such as “protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation-states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.”…

This Dichotomous Debate Sucks At the beginning of the pandemic, the tech platforms experienced a short period of appreciation: “COVID-19 reminds us why social media is not just good, but saving lives.” President Biden provided the opposite narrative on July 16, 2021, when he said social media platforms like Facebook…

An excerpt from the book’s intro: The relationship between the tech giants and the media is not stable but rather a rollercoaster ride; you can be on the top of the world just to find yourself a moment later hurtling toward the ground. Not an enjoyable ride (though, reading about…