| Introduction
James P. Steyer | p. xi |
Part 1 | History is Watching | |
| "The Greatest Propaganda Machine in History"
Sacha Baron Cohen | p. 3 |
| "Be Paranoid"
Kara Swisher | p. 6 |
| "The Known Unknown"
Shoshana Zuboff | p. 11 |
| "When Data Drives Decisions"
Michael Bloomberg | p. 25 |
| "Tech, Heal Thyself"
Ellen Pao | p. 31 |
| "We Need a New Capitalism, Based on Trust"
Marc Benioff | p. 41 |
| "Most Tech Companies Don't Care"
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | p. 54 |
| "An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg"
Aaron Sorkin | p. 61 |
| "Technology and Social Connection"
Vivek Murthy | p. 64 |
Part 2 | How Tech is Hurting Kids | |
| "Kids Interrupted: How Social Media Derails Adolescent Development"
Madeline Levine | p. 77 |
| "Big Tech Failed My Generation"
Cameron Kasky | p. 86 |
| "The New Normal"
Willow Bay | p. 90 |
| "Why Section 230 Hurts Kids and What to Do about It"
Bruce Reed and James P. Steyer | p. 94 |
| "Raising Our Children in Two Worlds"
Sissi Cancino | p. 103 |
| "Using Technology to Boost Kids' Brain Development"
Chelsea Clinton | p. 106 |
| "What, Me Worry? The Rise of Stealth Parenting"
Julie Lythcott-Haims | p. 110 |
| "Is This the Culture That We Want?"
Jennifer Siebel Newsom | p. 116 |
Part 3 | A Threat to Democracy? | |
| "Bolstering Democracy's Immune System"
Craig Newmark | p. 123 |
| "Reclaiming Democracy"
Marietje Schaake | p. 127 |
| "Using Technology to Defeat Democracy"
LaTosha Brown | p. 133 |
| "The Assault on Civil Discourse and an Informed Electorate"
Senator Mark Warner | p. 136 |
| "Repairing a Fractured America"
Lawrence Lessig | p. 143 |
| "Technology for Global Good"
Khaled Hosseini | p. 146 |
| "The Era of Fake Video Begins"
Franklin Foer | p. 151 |
| "The Informality Machine"
Yuval Levin | p. 158 |
Part 4 | Where Big Tech Went Wrong | |
| "The Thief in Our Pockets: The Dark Side of Smart Tech"
Laurie Santos | p. 167 |
| "We're All Connected but No One's in Charge"
Thomas Friedman | p. 173 |
| "Technology Can Augment Our Humanity or Consume It"
Arianna Huffington | p. 178 |
| "Shock Therapy"
Tim Wu | p. 183 |
| "Tech and Creative Destruction"
Jonathan Taplin | p. 189 |
| "Mad Men and Math Men"
Ken Auletta | p. 195 |
| "The Three Sacreds-and Their Disruptions"
Howard Gardner | p. 204 |
Part 5 | Technology and Race | |
| "The New Jim Code"
Ruha Benjamin | p. 211 |
| "Closing the Digital Divide"
Geoffrey Canada | p. 215 |
| "The Newest Jim Crow"
Michelle Alexander | p. 218 |
| "Technology, Incfusiveness, Structural Racism, and Silicon Valley"
Theodore M. Shaw | p. 223 |
| "Technically Racist"
Shaun R. Harper | p. 226 |
Part 6 | Doing Good, Not Evil | |
| "Inside Cult 2.0"
Renée DiResta | p. 233 |
| "Transforming the Attention Economy"
Tristan Harris | p. 239 |
| "How Technology Can Humanize Education"
Sal Khan | p. 249 |
| "Making Mischief"
Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley and David Kelley | p. 254 |
| "Has Coronavirus Made the Internet Better?"
Jenna Wortham | p. 263 |
| "Making Internet Platforms Accountable"
Roger McNamee | p. 267 |
| "Restructuring the Tech Economy"
Jaron Lanier | p. 277 |
| "Rejecting the Sirens of the 'Friction-Free' World"
Sherry Turkle | p. 281 |
| "Unintended Side Effects: Social Media, Walled Gardens, and the Erosion of Democracy"
John Hennessy | p. 285 |
| "The Change in the Nature of Change"
James G. Coulter | p. 292 |
| "Are Facebook, Google, and Amazon the New Tobacco Industry?"
Jeff Goodby | p. 302 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 311 |
| Endnotes | p. 313 |