Move Slow and Upgrade

Evan Selinger is a Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the ethical and privacy dimensions of emerging technology. Selinger's previous Cambridge University Press books included the co-authored Re-Engineering Humanity (2019) and co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy (2018). He is a contributing writer at The Boston Globe. Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project's founder and executive director. He has served as Practitioner-in-Residence at NYU Law School's Information Law Institute and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, Yale Law School's Information Society Project, Ashoka, and TED.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Zuckerberg's Mythological Metaverse; 3. The Crypto Con; 4. Home Security Upgrades; 5. The Failed Promise of Covid Innovation; 6. Moving Fast and Breaking Schools with Remote Proctoring; 7. Upgrades in the Age of Generative AI; 8. Upgrading Hiring; 9. Cybersecurity: The Land of the True Upgraders; 10. The Upgrader's Mindset.

'In this wise and timely book, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn offer an incisive critique of the 'move fast and break things' ideology of innovation that has done such harm to society in recent years. But they do something more: They provide a practical alternative, an approach to technological progress that aims not to disrupt people's lives but to make them richer and more fulfilling.' Nicholas Carr, author of Superbloom and The Shallows