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Which Side of History? audiobook

  • By: James P. Steyer
  • Narrator: Cheri Vandenheuvel
  • Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books
  • Publish date: October 13, 2020
  • Language: English
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Which Side of History? Audiobook Summary

“A valuable primer on this moment where humans are deciding how much power over their lives they give to monopolies and algorithms.” -DAVE EGGERS, bestselling author of The Circle

Which Side of History? offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future.

Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more.

The essays focus on the extraordinary impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, democracy, climate change, and mental health.

This groundbreaking audiobook challenges opinion leaders and the broader public to take action to improve technology’s effects on our lives.


With the rise of cyberbullying and hate speech online, issues around climate change and technology, and the “move fast and break things” mentality of tech culture, Which Side of History? will urge readers to draw the line.

  • This book will help shape the conversations we have around technology in our society and our future for years to come.
  • A smart gift for anyone who approaches tech and the future with a healthy skepticism
  • Edited by James P. Steyer, the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media.
  • Add it to the shelf with books like Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.

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Which Side of History? Full Details

Narrator Cheri Vandenheuvel
Length 10 hours 23 minutes
Author James P. Steyer
Publisher Chronicle Books
Release date October 13, 2020
ISBN 9781797205182

Additional info

The publisher of the Which Side of History? is Chronicle Books. The imprint is Chronicle Prism. It is supplied by Chronicle Books. The ISBN-13 is 9781797205182.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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