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From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
"Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world...Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking,...
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
"Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world...Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking,...
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Cambridge University Press
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2023.
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English
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"This book describes how to solve the climate, air pollution, and energy security crises facing the world by using existing technologies. Written for everyone, it advises individuals, communities, and nations on what they can do to solve these problems, including the economic, health, climate, and land benefits of the solutions"--
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Westland Non-Fiction
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2023.
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English
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Over two decades, and across two different political regimes, the world's largest democracy combined the rise of cheap mobile phones, cheap data and a unique digital ID system to create an unprecedented revolution in digital public goods. This included the rise of path-breaking fintech systems like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the creation of a new kind of welfare state based on digital direct benefit transfers and interlinked e-governance systems...
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Columbia Global Reports
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[2024]
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English
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"A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, journalist Sasha Issenberg again goes behind the scenes of political campaigns. This time, the most urgent research and strategizing are being conducted on how to deal with disinformation"--
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