Technically Wrong

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Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day It s time we change that.In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use and to demand from the companies behind them.A Wired Top Tech Book of the YearA Fast Company Best Business and Leadership Book of the Year New Read [ Technically Wrong ] by [ Sara Wachter-Boettcher ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr WellThis is another one of those funny books that is sort of a 5 and sort of a 3 The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are not necessarily intentionally biased The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of tech company investors and employees.There is no doubt in my mind that this is true, and on that basis, I d recommend this to anyone in or outside of tech We product builders and designers are doing a crap job of acknowled WellThis is another one of those funny books that is sort of a 5 and sort of a 3 The book broadly claims that the tech industry builds interfaces and products that are not necessarily intentionally biased The book says that the main driver is the homogeneity of tech company investors and employees.There is no doubt in my mind that this is true, and on that basis, I d recommend this to anyone in or outside of tech We product builders and designers are doing a crap job of acknowledging the incredibly broad types of people and styles of interaction out there Because of tech...A good and short read Plenty of examples, but mostly the famous ones on the internet the author s alignment with the truly marginalized is limited, mostly with female gays transgender nonwhites but still the educated, unlike O Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy who places her...Recommended reading on the current very current state of the tech industry Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuseson programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases instead of algorithms First I d thought of recommending it only to programmers there s a bunch of stuff on personas and other design techniques that are not of interest to regular humans but then it branches Recommended reading on the current very current state of the tech industry Overlaps a little bit with and cites Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, but focuseson programmer an designer choices, assumptions and hidden biases instead of algorithms First I d thought of recommending it only to programmers there s a bun...A must read for anyone who designs digital experiences, and doesn t want to be an inadvertent dude bro.Against a backdrop of increasingly ubiquitous technology, with every online interaction forcing us to expose parts of ourselves, Sara Wachter Boettcher weaves a challenging narrative with ease With ease, but not easily Many of the topics covered...I won this book in a giveaway I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort at my job and wanted to make sure i didn t fall into any of these traps The book was not what I was thinking it was but boy were my eyes opened I have worked in tech for 35 years I m a woman and have experienced the discrimination the book describes early in my career developing software for a utility While I was raising my kids, I taught computers in I won this book in a giveaway I work in the tech sector and was interested in this book because I am leading a digital transformation effort a...I want to qualify my rating of this book If you haven t previously thought about sexism, racism, or other forms of discrimination in the tech industry, this is a five star recommendation However, as someone who regularly reads about this topic and pays attention to tech news, I encountered very little new information in this book It was also a bit disappointing to see so much foc...This is a good solid introduction to a really important issue Given the nature of the subject matter, a lot of the most striking anecdotes in here were covered by the tech press and so were widely circulated within the community of people observing this kind of thing closely But even as somebody who pays a lot of attention to the problems described in this book, a few stories were new to me Certainly, if this is not an area you are already pouring hours of each day into, there will be a lot o This is a good solid introduction ...This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline Wachter Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetuate particular cultural norms that just don t work for many of the people they supposedly serve As someone who works in technology as a behavior change designer, I ll return to this book for reflection in the futu This was a very thoughtful exploration of how bias is built into the tech products we use every day, and how that bias subsequently shapes and reinforces behaviors offline Wachter Boettcher explores not just how technology is built, but also how the organizations that build it perpetuate particular cultural norms that just don t work for many of the people they supposedl...Read it You ll be angry, and inspired.This scathing critique of the tech industry and its techniques is both informative and hair raising Wachter Boettcher winningly posits that from top industry giants like Facebook to bottom smaller, niche companies , services rely on finely crafted promises of ease, interconnectedness, and service to humanity In reality, these are for profit businesses As these companies becomeandubiquitous they act as quasi public utilities sans the governmental oversight and controls Google s This scathing critique of the tech industry and its techniques is both informative and hair raising Wachter Boettcher winningly posits that from top industry giants like Facebook to bottom smaller, niche companies , services rely on finely crafted promises of ease, interconnectedness, and service to humanity In reality, these are for profit businesses As these companies becomeandubiquitous they act as quasi public utilities sans the governmental oversight and controls Google s summer 2017 anti diversity uproar, Facebook s September 2017 revelations about Russian ads, and the Equifax breach and coverup revealed in that same month all of which occurred after this book was written lend much credence to W B s well written criticism I...

Technically Wrong
  • 26 September 2017
  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • 0393356043
  • Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  • Technically Wrong