Books like Abolish Silicon Valley

A heartfelt memoir meets a radical manifesto that dismantles the myth of the tech industry's growth-at-all-costs ethos. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Abolish Silicon Valley.

reflective
sobering
galvanizing

01
Technically Wrong
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
A sharp, validating wake-up call that pulls back the curtain on the biases baked into our everyday digital lives.
Shares:
- critical
- urgent
02
Voices from the Valley
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel
An unfiltered, ground-level exploration of the human labor and stark contradictions hiding behind Silicon Valley's polished utopian hype.
Shares:
- critical
03
Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford
A sobering, data-driven look into the encroaching obsolescence of human labor and the urgent need to rethink our economic future.
Shares:
- sobering
- urgent
- analytical
04
Surveillance Valley
Yasha Levine
A chilling, deeply researched unmasking of the internet's military origins and the inescapable surveillance woven into modern technology.
Shares:
- critical
- urgent
05
The war on normal people
Andrew Yang
An urgent, eye-opening exploration of technological disruption that pivots from economic alarm to a rallying cry for systemic change.
Shares:
- galvanizing
- urgent
06
Zucked
Roger McNamee
An insider's chilling awakening to the democratic destruction wrought by the very technology he once championed.
Shares:
- critical
- urgent
07
The Technology Trap
Carl Benedikt Frey
A sweeping, sobering historical lens on the human cost of technological progress and the fragile balance of societal power.
Shares:
- analytical
08
What technology wants
Kevin Kelly
A sweeping, optimistic reframing of technology as a living, evolving force deeply intertwined with human destiny.
Feels:
- intellectually stimulating
- awe-inspiring
- contemplative
09
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
A monumental, dread-inducing masterclass that provides the exact vocabulary needed to understand how the digital world is strip-mining human autonomy.
Shares:
- urgent
10
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
A quiet, radical invitation to step off the treadmill of the attention economy and root yourself in the physical world.
Shares:
- critical
11
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Aaron Bastani
A provocative, techno-optimistic manifesto that dares to imagine a post-scarcity future of boundless abundance and leisure.
Feels:
- hopeful
- expansive
- intellectually charged
12
Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin
A sharp, eye-opening dismantling of the myth that algorithms and emerging technologies are inherently neutral.
Shares:
- sobering
- critical
- urgent
- analytical

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