Newton Books Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to troubling conclusions about who we are. They shape our everyday thoughts, choices, and actions from who we date to whether we vote. But this is just the latest front in an age-old struggle.
 

In Freedom to Think, leading human rights barrister Susie Alegre explores how the powerful have always sought to influence how we think and what we buy. Connecting the dots from Galileo to Alexa, this ground-breaking book charts the history and fragility of our most important human right freedom of thought."
 

What You'll Learn:

• How tech companies use algorithms to categorize and influence your thinking
• How the powerful have historically sought to control the minds of ordinary people
• How freedom of thought has been won, lost, and threatened across centuries
• How our mental freedom is under greater threat today than ever before
• How we must recast our human rights for the digital age to safeguard our future

Perfect For: Thinkers, lawyers, activists, tech professionals, policy makers, and anyone who cares about protecting their mental freedom in the digital age.
 

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