Book reviews by Wendy M. Grossman

Book reviews by Wendy M. Grossman:

Note (2025-12-29): Since ZDNet UK folded its book reviews section, I continue to publish some reviews at the net.wars blog and as part of podcasts at Plutopia. Please do get in touch if you have a book that fits into the nexus of technology, law, security, and policy, aka computers, freedom, and privacy.

Latest book reviews are at the net.wars books page, which has its own RSS feed.

2025

The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today's Most Essential Superpower, by Jimmy Wales (2025-12-03).
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (2025-10-01).
Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, by Ben Collier (2025-09-16).
The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, edited by Neal Baer (2025-05-30).
Vassal State: How America Runs Britain, by Angus Hanton (2025-04-29).
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (2025-03-31).

Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Operation Ever (2025-01-27).

2024

The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic< by Jeff Jarvis (2024-10-22).
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World, by Parmy Olson (2024-10-09).
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, by Renée DiResta (2024-08-07).
Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing, and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business, by David Birch and Victoria Richardson (2024-06-25).
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech, by Meredith Broussard (2024-05-15).
A History of Fake Things on the Internet, by Walter J. Scheirer (2024-05-07).
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire, by Tim Schwab (2024-03-13).
The Oracle, by Ari Juels (2024-03-05).
Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life, by Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield.

2023

The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World, by James Ball (2023-10-06).
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, by Karen Levy (2023-10-03).
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet, by Jeff Jarvis (2023-09-27).
< href="https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/09/19/review-sorry-sorry-sorry/">Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies, by Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy (2023-09-13).
Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge, by Amy S. Bruckman (2023-08-22).
Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash and Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For, by Wagner James Au (2023-08-01).
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement, by James Vincent (2023-07-25).
A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back, by Bruce Schneier (2023-06-08).
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, by Andy Greenberg (2023-05-16).
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for our Wallets, by Brett Scott (2023-04-12).
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff (2023-02-15).

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