The Best Tech Books of 2020 Are All About Giving Power to the User

These 21 books about technology and its impact on society are crucial to understanding our fractious future

Brian Merchant
OneZero
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12 min readDec 11, 2020

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There was a quiet but serious shift in mainstream thought about technology underway this year, even before everything went to hell. Most years, the release schedule for tech…

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Brian Merchant
OneZero

Senior editor, OneZero, books, futures, fiction. Author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, founder of Terraform @ Motherboard @ VICE.