The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity by Wu, Tim
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity by Wu, Tim

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention...
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity by Wu, Tim

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

$45.89
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity by Wu, Tim

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

$45.89
Author: Tim Wu
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants) explains how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works for everyone.

"The magic of Tim Wu's The Age of Extraction is its simplicity. Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age--the unaccountable power of tech platforms--into such digestible pieces that the solutions for what to do become dead obvious. Essential reading."--Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

"It's not just in your head--your online life is draining your wallet.... [The Age of Extraction is] a sharp and eye-opening introduction to how we arrived at platform capitalism--where no good click goes unmonetized."--Kirkus Reviews

Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment, but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data, and attention from all of us. An economy driven by digital platforms and AI influence offers the potential to enrich us, and also threatens to marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap, and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better life for everyone? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too far gone?

Tim Wu--the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--explores the rise of platform power and details the risks and rewards of working within such systems. The Age of Extraction tells the story of an Internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy in the 1990s and 2000s, only to create new economic classes and aid the spread of autocracy instead. Wu frames our current moment with lessons from recent history--from generative AI and predictive social data to the antimonopoly and crypto movements--and envisions a future where technological advances can serve the greatest possible good. Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for taking back control in order to achieve a better economic balance and prosperity for all.

Author: Tim Wu
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780593321249


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Library Journal 09/01/2025 pg. 84
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2025
Shelf Awareness 09/11/2025
Booklist 10/01/2025

About the Author
Tim Wu is Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School. He worked in the White House as special assistant to the President for technology and competition policy. The author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants, he lives in New York City.
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