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The Age of Extraction
How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
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One of the world's foremost exponents of anti-monopoly law explains how Big Tech is strangling our economies and how to stop it. Today's dominant tech platforms are the most effective tools ever created for extracting wealth, destabilising the societies they plunder by creating vast inequality. One...
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One of the world's foremost exponents of anti-monopoly law explains how Big Tech is strangling our economies and how to stop it.
Today's dominant tech platforms are the most effective tools ever created for extracting wealth, destabilising the societies they plunder by creating vast inequality. One of the world's pre-eminent anti-monopoly experts explains how and why we must take back control.
Our world is ruled by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data and attention from all of us. An economy driven by tech and AI could enrich us, yet it could also marginalise entire industries, widen the wealth gap and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better way? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too late?
Tim Wu, the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase net neutrality, tells the story of an internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy, only to aid the spread of autocracy instead. From generative AI and predictive social data to antitrust and cryptocurrency, Wu frames our current moment within key lessons from recent history. And, perhaps most importantly of all, Wu envisions a future where technological advances serve the greatest possible good - for everyone.
Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for reclaiming control to achieve better economic balance and prosperity for all.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781529967319
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 168g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Tim Wu is Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School. He worked in the White House as special assistant to President Biden for technology and competition policy, where he helped craft the administration's antitrust policies. He is the author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants and coined the phrase 'net neutrality'. He currently splits his time between New York City and Oxford.
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