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Technically Wrong Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Technically Wrong By Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher


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Summary

A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products-and harm us all.

Technically Wrong Summary

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed or why. It's time we changed that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Sign-up forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.

Technically Wrong takes an unflinching look at the values, processes and assumptions that lead to these problems and more. Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use-and demand more from the companies behind them.

Technically Wrong Reviews

The stories [Sara Wachter-Boettcher] tells... are good, as are the examples she provides of corporate failure. -- The Sunday Times
This is a powerful read reflecting on the prejudices that lurk within a powerful industry. -- Selected as one of the 25 best books for IT leaders - IT Pro

About Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Sara Wachter-Boettcher runs Rare Union, a consultancy based in Philadelphia, and is the author of Technically Wrong, Design for Real Life, with Eric Meyer, and Content Everywhere. She helps organizations with digital product and content strategy, and speaks at conferences worldwide.

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GOR008693628
9780393634631
0393634639
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20171110
240
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