{"product_id":"age-of-the-algorithm-living-working-and-thinking-in-the-new-era-of-machines-9798272908001","title":"Age of the Algorithm: Living, Working, and Thinking in the New Era of Machines","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tudor Finneran\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou interact with algorithms hundreds of times a day. You've never thought about them once.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey wake you up, curate your news, plan your commute, filter your job applications, suggest your lunch, and analyze your spending. By evening, invisible systems have shaped what you see, know, buy, and believe-without you noticing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the Age of the Algorithm. And it's time you understood what's really going on.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the AI deciding who gets hired to the system determining bail, from social media feeds designed to be addictive to healthcare algorithms that deny treatment, these systems promise efficiency but deliver surveillance, bias, and concentrated power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this essential guide, Tudor Finneran reveals: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow algorithms actually work-demystified for everyone, no coding required\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy they're not neutral-the hidden values and choices embedded in every system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere they're already controlling your life-and how to recognize it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe real-world harms: Cambridge Analytica, biased policing algorithms, discriminatory hiring systems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat resistance looks like-from GDPR to worker organizing to technical alternatives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to protect yourself-practical strategies for digital autonomy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe algorithms know you better than you know yourself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book teaches you to question what you've been told to accept. To recognize when systems are operating and whose interests they serve. To demand transparency, fairness, and accountability from the invisible infrastructure governing modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWeapons of Math Destruction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47967911018647,"sku":"9798272908001","price":1295.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798272908001.webp?v=1782916080","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/age-of-the-algorithm-living-working-and-thinking-in-the-new-era-of-machines-9798272908001","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}