The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation

With the movement accelerating to break up Big Tech companies like Google, some are asking if this is the best way to help the public share in the wealth created in Silicon Valley. In The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation, James Bessen, an economist and technologist who is executive director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University, offers an alternative outlook — one based on forcing those companies to share their technology, data and insights. If you’re looking ahead to how AI and other technologies will shape the workplace in the future, and how they can be managed for the public good, this book will shed interesting light.