Four books for people who are increasingly suspicious that the internet was good, and now it is terrible.

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus — Douglas Rushkoff

For the person who thinks the problem isn't technology itself, but an economic system that has made endless growth everybody else's problem.

Platform Socialism — James Muldoon

For the person who doesn't just want to complain about Big Tech, but wants to know what a genuinely democratic digital future might look like.

New Waves — Kevin Nguyen

For the person who likes their tech criticism wrapped in a novel about race, ambition, alienation, and the spectacular dysfunction of startup culture.

Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet — Lisa Nakamura

For the person who knows the internet was never the neutral, disembodied utopia we were promised, and wants to understand whose identities got written into the code.