A review by lifeinpoetry
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson

4.0

edit: After seeing how AI has been weaponized against marginalized people, especially in the legal system and in healthcare, I think this book was extremely naive, lacking in intersectionality, and ignores the here and now, instead focusing on a utopian future.

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I honestly think there need to be more humanities majors writing in depth about technology so I appreciated this book. Sometimes a bit basic for my tastes but I finally noped out of being a sysadmin in 2015/2016 after about 17 years so I'm definitely rusty and AI was never something I had dabbled in. She's a lot more hopeful than I am about AI and tech and her take on it would likely not move too many people in tech but hopefully this gets some people interested on either side.