They’ve got you, wherever you are: Jacob Weisberg reviews The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu; and Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez. Tim Cook confirms: Tech met with Trump to ask for billions in tax breaks. Forgive me, techies, but here are the seven reasons why Silicon Valley likes Trump. Silicon Valley's power brokers want you to think they're different — but they're just average robber barons. Blinded by “technology”: Bob Hughes, author of The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World, on how another world should be easy — what’s hard is imagining it when somebody’s brandishing an iPhone in your face. The first chapter from Technology Differences over Space and Time by Francesco Caselli.
