The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes
Rating: 2.0 / 5 · Read · Finished 2018-08-28
It’s got some good points, but it’s so poorly organized. Basically a stream of consciousness. I found myself frequently forgetting what his point was, or why he was talking about a seemingly random topic. He also conflates inequality with poverty in a lot of examples.
Main takeaways:
- there is actually more innovation in an equal society than an unequal one
- inequality is generally bad
- computers are extremely wasteful and harmful to the environment, but they don’t have to be
- competition results in a race to keep up
- manufacturers have to switch to new standards or else become outdated
- consumers have to switch or their devices loose support and compatibility