Book draws parallels between Industrial Revolution and Big Tech era

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Brian Merchant's book "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" draws parallels between the Industrial Revolution and the current technological landscape. The book highlights how early industrialists amassed wealth and power through mechanization and automation, leading to labor unrest and suppression of radical speech. Merchant suggests these historical patterns resonate with contemporary issues surrounding big tech. AI

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Book draws parallels between Industrial Revolution and Big Tech era

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Blood in the Machine "By the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The most successful entrepreneurs a

Blood in the Machine "By the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists—the first tech titans, we might call them—had accumulated impressive stores of wealth and power, and m…

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Blood in the Machine "By the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The most successful entrepreneurs a

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