Manuel de déconstruction des Big Tech, ou comment récupérer les moyens de production numérique
15 x 21 cm, 240 pages
Publié 5 septembre 2023 par C&F éditions.
« Ceci est un livre pour les personnes qui veulent détruire les Big Tech.
Ce n'est pas un livre pour les personnes qui veulent dompter les Big Tech. Il est impossible de les réformer.
Ce n'est pas non plus un livre pour les personnes qui veulent se débarrasser des technologies à proprement parler. Les technologies ne posent pas de problème en soi. Arrêtons de réfléchir à ce que font les technologies. Réfléchissons plutôt à qui elles le font et pour qui elles le font.
C'est un livre qui s'intéresse à ce que les Big Tech craignent le plus : une technologie qui serait dans les mains et au service des personnes qui l'utilisent. » Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow provides a great overview of the problems with Big Tech and some possible solutions for going forward. The book is not exhaustive but provides gets you started and encourages you to dive deeper in the areas you’re interested in.
I consider myself pretty well versed in the shortcomings of capitalism, but this book still managed to shock me time and time again with tales of the brazen greed of tech companies over time. It was an easy read, which I appreciated, and I greatly enjoyed the conversational and sometimes colorful tone of writing.
Yet even though the author said multiple times that he would explain how we go about fixing the problems of Big Tech, he never really did. That is, unless I somehow figure out how to suddenly make Congress listen to me instead of a huge corporation, or learn how to reverse-engineer my own social media company. Nevertheless, it’s a great read, and one that more people probably should.
Cory's blog has been a source of unease for me for some time as he's reminded us what the internet used to be like before it was dominated by the monster siloes like Facebook and Google.
This book is a call to arms with some real strategies to seize back what we've lost.
I guess expecting the Anarchist's Cookbook of Adversarial Interoperability would be a bit much, but I did feel like it was lacking any real practical solutions to Big Tech's rampant monopolization.
Not really a very actionable for the person on the street. Kinda needs "Chokepoint Capitalism" to make sense. Well written, timely given gestures to twitter, facebook, reddit, tiktok, youtube, etc
