Review: "Power and Progress" — Who Steers Technology

A review of the argument that technological progress does not automatically benefit the many — its direction is set by who holds power.

The book dismantles the common belief that every innovation brings shared prosperity. History, the authors argue, is full of long stretches when the fruits of progress went to a narrow elite.

Its strength is the historical evidence; its weakness, it diagnoses more loudly than it prescribes.