The book listing is broken down into two categories: those utilized for the Big Tech section portion of the series (segments 1 – 6) and those utilized in the Artificial Intelligence section (segments 7 – 14). The books are listed by author. To learn more about each book, click on the red title.
BIG TECH SECTION 1. Allum Bokhari: #Deleted (2020).Allum Bokhari is a senior technology investigative reporter for Breitbart News. He has published explosive material from Silicon Vally whistleblowers exposing Big Tech’s lurch toward censorship including Google’s “The Good Censor,” Facebook’s “Hate Agents” review list, and YouTube’s search blacklist. In 2018, Bokhari stunned the media when he obtained and published “The Google Tape,” a 1-hour recording of Google’s top executives reacting to the 2016 Trump election and declaring their intention to make the populist movement “a blip” in history. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Politics from the University of Oxford. He lives in Washington, D.C.
2. Franklin Foer: World without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (2017). Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of How Soccer Explains the World, which has been translated into 27 languages and is a winner of a National Jewish Book Award. For seven years, he edited The New Republic magazine, and commented on contemporary issues from a liberal perspective. World without Mind was named a New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017. He graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and lives in Washington D.C. NPR Report
3. Rana Foroohar: Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech (2021). Rana Foroohar is a global business columnist and associate editor for the Financial Times, and a global economic analyst for CNN. Previously, she spent 6 years as the assistant managing editor and economic columnist at Time and 13 years at Newsweek as an economic and foreign affairs editor and foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. She has received a 2018 Best in Business Award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and awards and fellowships from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her previous book Makers and Takers was short-listed for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award in 2016. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Foroohar graduated in 1992 from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
4. Josh Hawley: The Tyranny of Big Tech (2021). Josh Hawley is an American politician, lawyer, and former professor who has served as the junior senator from Missouri since 2019. Much of his material for the book comes from the Big Tech hearings held by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of which he is a member. He was previously the Missouri Attorney General. Senator Hawley is recognized as one of the nation’s leading constitutional lawyers. He clerked for the chief justice of the United States and is the author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. He splits his time between Washington, D.C. and their home in Ozark, Missouri. Mind Matters
5. Mark R. Levin: American Marxism (2021). Mark Levin is a nationally syndicated talk-radio host, host of Levin TV, chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation, and the host of the Fox News show Life, Liberty & Levin. He is the author of six consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers: Liberty and Tyranny, Ameritopia, The Liberty Amendments, Plunder and Deceit, Rediscovering Americanism, and Unfreedom of the Press. Liberty and Tyranny spent three months at #1 and sold more than 1.5 million copies. To date this book American Marxism has sold over 700,000 copies in the first three weeks of release. Levin is an inductee into the National Radio Hall of Fame and was a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University and a JD from Temple University Law School. Levin lives in Philadelphia, PA.
6. Zephyr Teachout: Break’em Up: Recovering our Freedom from BIG AG, BIG TECH, and BIG MONEY (2020). Zephyr Teachout is an attorney, political activist, and antitrust and corruption expert. A rising star on the left. Teachout campaigned for New York attorney general in 2018 and was endorsed by Bernie Sanders (who wrote the forward for this book), the New York Times, and others. She was part of the team of lawyers that sued Donald Trump for allegedly violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Teachout sits on the board or CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) and teaches law at Fordham University. Teachout received a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1993, where she also did some acting. In 1999, she earned two simultaneous degrees from Duke University, a Juris Doctor and a Master of Arts degree in political science. She lives in New York City.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SECTION 7. Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (2018).Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese-born American computer scientist, businessman, and writer. He currently is the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading technology-savvy investment firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Before founding Sinovation in 2009, Lee was the president of Google China. Previously he held executive positions at Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, and Apple. Lee developed a speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system as his Ph.D. thesis at Carnegie Mellon University. He graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University, earning a B.S. degree in computer science in 1983. He is one of the most followed micro-bloggers in China where he has over 50 million followers. He lives in Beijing, China. Wikipedia
8. Rajiv Malhotra: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: Five Battlegrounds (2021). Rajiv Malhotra (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian American Hindu activist and an internationally acclaimed author and public intellectual. He combines his background in physics and computer science with his quarter century of path-breaking research on India’s historical and future place in the world. He was trained initially as a physicist, and then as a Computer Scientist specializing in AI in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the U.S., he then became an entrepreneur and founded and ran several IT companies in 20 countries. As the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (Princeton, USA) in 1995, he has been researching civilizations and their engagement with technology from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective. The foundation has given more than 400 grants for research, education, and community work. Some of his books include Invading the Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America (2007) The Challenge of Eurocentrism: Global Perspectives, Policy, and Prospects (2009), American Exceptionalism and the Myth of Frontiers (2009), Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011). He was educated at St. Stephens College in Delhi, India, and Syracuse University in New York State.
9. Amy Webb: The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity (2019). Amy Lynn Webb is an American futurist, author and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute. She is an adjunct assistant professor of strategic foresight at New York University’s Stern School of Business, a nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council and was a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Webb started her career as a journalist covering technology and economics. She was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and then relocated to Hong Kong to work as a staff reporter with Newsweek covering emerging technologies. In 2006, Webb founded the Future Today Institute, a management consulting firm. Since 2007, Webb has authored the firms annual Tech Trend Report, an account of the future of technologies and their impact on society. She was named to the BBC 100 Women list for 2019. This book, The Big Nine, won the 2020 Gold Axiom Award for Business Technology. The book was longlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Best Business Book of 2019 award. Excerpts from it were published in Wired, Fast Company, Inc., and Business Insider. VentureBeat called the book “an accessible and constructive imaging of what could come next.” Other books she has written include Data: A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match (2013), How to Make J-School Matter (Again), and The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream (2016). She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science, economics, and game theory from Indiana University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in New York City and Baltimore, Maryland. ZD Net
10. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan: AI: 2041 – Ten Visions for our Future (2021). For Dr. Lee’s bio see #7 above. Chen Qiufan is an award-winning author, translator, creative producer, and curator. He is the president of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association. His works include Waste Tide, Future Disease and The Algorithms for Life. He lives in Beijing and Shanghai. AI: 2041 has ten fictional short stories involving AI applications by Qiufan all followed by an AI analysis by Dr. Lee. All of the excerpts used in segments 15 & 16 in this series are from Dr. Lee’s analyses. Other link 11. Vivek Ramaswamy: Woke Inc. Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam (2021). Vivek Ramaswamy is an entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful enterprises. A first-generation American, he is the founder and Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences, a new type of biopharmaceutical company focused on the application of technology to drug development. He founded Rovant in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPO of 2015 and 2016, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products. Mr. Ramaswamy serves on the board of directors of the Philanthropy Roundtable and the Foundation for Research and Equal Opportunity.
12. Darrell M West and John R. Allen: Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (2020). Darrell M. West is vice president of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and holds the Douglas Dillon Chair. He is a senior fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and is co-editor-in-chief of its TechThink blog and podcast. John R. Allen is president of the Brookings Institution. He is a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan.