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The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu: This book examines the dominance of technology platforms and their impact on economics and politics. Wu provides a critical analysis of how value is extracted from data and resources in the digital age, and raises questions about the growing power of technology giants and its implications for societies and democracies. A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 • Technology platforms manipulate attention, drain wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (author of Attention Merchants) explains how we can take back control and create a balanced economy that serves everyone. "The magic of Tim Wu's book 'The Age of Exploitation' lies in its simplicity. Wu brilliantly deconstructs one of the biggest challenges of our time – the unaccountable power of technology platforms – into easy-to-understand chunks, so that the solutions become crystal clear. Essential reading." - Karen Howe, author of “The Artificial Intelligence Empire: Dreams and Nightmares of Sam Altman’s OpenAI.” “It's not just an illusion – your online life is draining your money... _The Age of Exploitation” offers a sharp and surprising introduction to how we arrived at platform capitalism – where no good click goes unprofitable.” - _Kirkus Reviews._ Our world is dominated by a few technology platforms. These technologies provide enormous convenience and entertainment, but they are also some of the most effective wealth exploitation tools ever created, siphoning off vast amounts of money, data, and attention from all of us. An economy based on digital platforms and the influence of artificial intelligence offers the potential to enrich us, but it also threatens to marginalize entire sectors, widen the wealth gap, and entrench a class system in society. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society create a better life for all? Is it possible to achieve a balance between economic growth and equality, or have we gone too far? Tim Wu, the distinguished scholar and former White House official who coined the term "net neutrality," explores the rise of platform power and details the risks and rewards of working within these systems. The book “The Age of Extraction_” tells the story of the Internet, which promised vast wealth and democracy in the 1990s and early 2000s, but instead created new economic classes and contributed to the spread of tyranny. Wu frames our current moment with lessons from recent history—from generative AI and predictive social data to antitrust movements and cryptocurrencies—and envisions a future in which technological advances are harnessed to serve the greatest possible good. Brief and hopeful, the book offers substantive proposals to take back the reins for better economic balance and prosperity for all.