Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why the digital products we rely on are designed the way they are, and may feel helpless when confronted with their baked-in oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. It’s time we change that.In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher takes an unflinching look at the values, processes, and assumptions that lead to these problems, and “urges activism, not passivity: Know your products, demand the best, change brands if need be, complain until the Silicon boys get it right” (Shepherd Express).