This is a really angry book, for really good reasons. Doctorow's analysis of what has gone wrong, why, and how seems pretty spot-on from where I'm sitting. Forty years of social, political, and economic choices have led to multiple entities that are too big to fail and too big to care, obviously in tech but in other areas as well. The last part of the book is a series of prescriptions for fixing society (and coincidentally the Internet) and I'm less sure of those working as actual solutions--though I guess I'm more dubious of them happening than I am of them working if they did. At best, the odds are against us, and I'm pretty sure the game's rigged, but I don't really see much other hope. If enough people read this, and enough of them get motivated to act, we might have a chance.
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