Sex & Drugs & Guns & Code

a few things programmers should know about society to understand big tech, social media, and AI

Chapters

1. Introduction
2. A Little Psychology
3. How We Got Here
4. A Little More Psychology
5. When the Model Is the Harm
6. Privacy, Power, and the Self
7. Who Gets What and Why
8. More Analogies
9. Control and Alternatives
10. What We Owe the Future
11. Regulation That Worked
12. When the Algorithm Comes for You
13. How Change Happens
14. Conclusion

Appendices

1. License
2. Code of Conduct
3. Contributing
4. Bibliography
5. Glossary

Acknowledgments

Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He was the co-founder and first Executive Director of Software Carpentry and received ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator Award in 2020.

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