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A review by vaibhav_tripathi
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
4.5/5 #recommended
Overall a phenomenal book, Unlike the book Stolen Focus whose focus is on the negative impact of social media technology on an individual's life, this book's focus is more on the entire society how even if we want we can't actually stop or escape the negative consequences that are happening collectively. We are in a grand experiment result of which no one can predict.
There were nit pics and problematic things the author said but in the end it's a terrifying tale of how Social media is dismantling our society by algorithms, the power they have over humans and governments, in the history of mankind we humans may never face a bigger threat except for nukes themselves. The most powerful private, only for profit, money hungry organisations whose only goal is to suck up every second of our life till death. ☠️ I not exaggerating, I was not aware that the problem is so big until I read this book. A must read in its genre, I hope it has some impact.
Overall a phenomenal book, Unlike the book Stolen Focus whose focus is on the negative impact of social media technology on an individual's life, this book's focus is more on the entire society how even if we want we can't actually stop or escape the negative consequences that are happening collectively. We are in a grand experiment result of which no one can predict.
There were nit pics and problematic things the author said but in the end it's a terrifying tale of how Social media is dismantling our society by algorithms, the power they have over humans and governments, in the history of mankind we humans may never face a bigger threat except for nukes themselves. The most powerful private, only for profit, money hungry organisations whose only goal is to suck up every second of our life till death. ☠️ I not exaggerating, I was not aware that the problem is so big until I read this book. A must read in its genre, I hope it has some impact.