System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

Product Description 
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. 
It doesn’t need to be this way. 
System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us. 
Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors—a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer)—reveal how we can hold that power to account. 
Troubled by the values that permeate the university’s student body and its culture, they worked together to chart a new path forward, creating a popular course to transform how tomorrow’s technologists approach their profession. Now, as the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us. 
 Review 
"Enough with the breathless dreams of digital utopias and poisonous polemics about technological dystopias! In 
System Error, we finally have a book about the digital revolution that is serious rather than sensationalistic. Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way." -- 
Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix \n“ 
System Error offers a powerful account of how our lives, our politics, and our values have been reshaped by technology in ways that we are just starting to comprehend. Full of stories and insights, this remarkable book charts a path forward for creating a healthy digital future.” -- 
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation\n"Albert Einstein once lamented that 'our technology has exceeded our humanity.' That danger is ever more pressing as powerful artificial intelligence technologies are transforming society at a pace never seen before. From the heart of Silicon Valley comes a profoundly important book that examines the ethical and social impact of the digital technologies and offers a more human-centered framework. This is a must-read for every student, engineer, businessperson, policymaker, or anyone who cares about our society’s collective future." -- 
Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Professor Computer Science, Co-Director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI, and member of the National Academies of Engineering and Medicine \n" 
System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated. Best of all, the authors offer actual solutions for a reboot that are both timely and feasible." -- 
Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America

Reich, Rob

Sahami, Mehran

Weinstein, Jeremy M.

Reference

Harper

Product Description "System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated." — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New AmericaA forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein.It doesn’t need to be this way.System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us.Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors—a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer)—reveal how we can hold that power to account.Troubled by the values that permeate the university’s student body and its culture, they worked together to chart a new path forward, creating a popular course to transform how tomorrow’s technologists approach their profession. Now, as the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us. Review "Enough with the breathless dreams of digital utopias and poisonous polemics about technological dystopias! In System Error, we finally have a book about the digital revolution that is serious rather than sensationalistic. Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way." — Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix “System Error offers a powerful account of how our lives, our politics, and our values have been reshaped by technology in ways that we are just starting to comprehend. Full of stories and insights, this remarkable book charts a path forward for creating a healthy digital future.” — Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation"System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated. Best of all, the authors offer actual solutions for a reboot that are both timely and feasible." — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America"System Error is essential reading for those who want to unlock the positive power of technology to advance human progress. This brilliantly crafted book lays out a vision for how the government and private sector can work together to deploy technology in service of a better world. Reich, Sahami, and Weinstein elucidate some of the most complex challenges facing our society, and ultimately remind us that there is no substitute for moral responsibility and business practices that support the health and well-being of our communities." — Evan

Harper Paperbacks

Business Driven Information Systems

Paige Baltzan

Business & Money

McGraw-Hill.

Business Driven Technology with MISource 2007 and Student CD

Haag,Stephen

Management & Leadership

McGraw-Hill Higher Education

What's Good About Anger? Expanded 16 Lesson Book/Workbook, Third Edition (2013)). Includes all the best research-based strategies for managing anger and emotional intelligence! This excellent anger management resource includes the Third Edition book and 16 expanded application lessons to help people effectively deal with anger issues. Lessons include "What If" scenarios and the following topics: ANGER SURVEY; 1: ANGER'S MANY FACES 2:THE POWER OF ANGER; 3:WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT ANGER?; 4:DEFUSING ANGER BY MANAGING STRESS; 5: HANDLING ANGER EFFECTIVELY; 6: ANGER AND ASSERTIVENESS; 7: MANAGING CONFLICT; 8: TURN YOUR ANGER INTO FORGIVENESS; 9: WHEN TO TAKE A TIME-OUT; 10: PLAN TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE BY CHANGING YOUR THINKING; 11: HOW EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IMPACTS ANGER; 12: BUILDING HEALTHY AND SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS; 13: CHOOSING BEHAVIOR ALTERNATIVES; 14: PREVENTING AND INTERRUPTING AGGRESSION; 15: STOP BLAMING-ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY 16: FACING THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANGER; ANGER MANAGEMENT PROGRESS REPORT; CASE STUDY: BOB; APPENDIX: ASSERTIVENESS SCENARIOS, COGNITIVE STRATEGIES &amp; BELIEF INVENTORY

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Computers & Technology

David N Plotkin

Web Development & Design

This is a major revision of the bestselling "Database Systems" text for undergraduate courses offered in departments of computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering. Special features include: a focus on network and hierarchical models giving increased emphasis to the relational model; an intuitive, rather than formal approach giving students a headstart on intuitive thinking; many examples, problems, and cases from the real world of computers. New to this edition are: expanded coverage of SQL and QBE; a new chapter on integrity constraints; improved relational algebra and relational calculus notation that simplifies the discussion of such difficult concepts as safety of queries; coverage of new directions in a completely revised Chapter 14, namely object-oriented databases, datalog, and long duration transactions.

Database System Concepts

Science & Math

Korth, Henry F.

Mathematics

Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 22nd International Conference, Ssdbm 2010, Heidelberg, Germany, June 30-July 2, 2010, Proceedings

Computer Science

Springer

The Baltzan and Phillips approach in Business Driven Information Systems discusses various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives drive technology choices in a corporation. Therefore, every discussion addresses the business needs first and addresses the technology that supports those needs second. This approach takes the difficult and often intangible MIS concepts, brings them down to the student's level, and applies them using a hands-on approach to reinforce the concepts. BDIS provides the foundation that will enable students to achieve excellence in business, whether they major in operations management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, etc. BDIS is designed to give students the ability to understand how information technology can be a point of strength in an organization.

Bus Driven Information Systems

Database System Concepts by Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan is now in its 7th edition and is one of the cornerstone texts of database education. It presents the fundamental concepts of database management in an intuitive manner geared toward allowing students to begin working with databases as quickly as possible.The text is designed for a first course in databases at the junior/senior undergraduate level or the first year graduate level. It also contains additional material that can be used as supplements or as introductory material for an advanced course. Because the authors present concepts as intuitive descriptions, a familiarity with basic data structures, computer organization, and a high-level programming language are the only prerequisites. Important theoretical results are covered, but formal proofs are omitted. In place of proofs, figures and examples are used to suggest why a result is true.

Silberschatz, Abraham

Sudarshan, S.

Databases & Big Data

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