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Free Chapter: Re-Engineering Humanity

With interdisciplinary breadth, scholarly depth, and clear, evocative, and resonant writing, Re-Engineering Humanity explains how technology threatens our humanity, endangers the future of our society, and can be changed for the better.

Reader Reviews:

“In Re-engineering Humanity, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger have dug deeply into what's going on behind the "cheap bliss" in our fully connected world.” - Doc Searles

“In our own time, as Frischmann and Selinger observe, the “smart” device and “internet of things” developers who offer us efficiency then pull a bait-and-switch: instead of sending us on our way to use our newly-free time on art, beauty, and education, they channel us into putting our time into mumblety-Facebook and its ilk, or what the authors aptly call “cheap bliss.” - Lara Freidenfelds

“Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger have written Re-Engineering Humanity as a sustained and multifaceted critique of how contemporary trends in internet technology are slowly but surely shrinking the territory of human autonomy. Their work is a warning, as well as a description, of how internet technologies that ostensibly make our lives easier do so by taking control of our lives away from our self-conscious decision-making.” - Adam Riggio


Re-Engineering Humanity - Brett Frischmann w/ Dr. Matt Hayler



Cambridge Handbooks

The Cambridge Handbook series bring together a group of world-renowned professors in the fields of law and economics to assess the theory and practice of law as technology advances, looking into surveillance law, antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer privacy.

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