Franklin Foer’s ‘World Without Mind’ argues that Silicon Valley will lead us to our doom

To many Americans, large technology firms embody much of what’s good about the modern world. Google holds the key to new depths of knowledge. Amazon is the white-knight savior of impulse shopping. Facebook builds the connective tissue to old friends and colleagues.

Franklin Foer‎ has a different perspective. In his new book, "World Without Mind," http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533937/world-without-mind-by-franklin-foer/9780525498360 the veteran journalist lays out a more ominous‎ view of where Big Tech would like to take us — in many ways, already has taken us.

Steven Zeitchik

http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-world-without-mind-20170912-story.html