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Gabriel Cohen on the Coming Tech Apocalypse
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- Jun 25, 2026
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Summary
At this very moment, a tiny number of Silicon Valley leaders are making risky decisions that will have a huge impact on the rest of the eight billion people on this planet. They don't mean to cause harm, but their new creations often bring dire unintended consequences: destructive psychological, social, economic, and political results. We call these "side effects," but they're often more powerful than the intended ones. That's the premise of the new book, The Frankenstein Fix: Why Big Tech Goes Astray and What We Can Do About It . Cohen is a writing professor at Pratt Institute and the author of a plethora of crime novels. He was also a WPKN programmer in the 1980s!