Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future

A fun, but important book which looks to challenge and question how we deal with technology and it’s impact on our lives. Written by Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring, the book, Monster, is published by Wiley books, see more here.

Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future

The authors have written this book in an accessible and engaging way. We liked it, it is a fun but important way to raise some key concerns and challenges that we are facing. If we are not careful we could end up in a even more dystopian place than we are already facing. Blockchain based technology has been used in China to monitor, and at times suppress members of its population, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica enabled the car crash that was #potus45 and all the hate, and racial bigotry that was allowed to pass. The disproportionate policing handed out to Black Lives Matter marches versus rednecks storming the Capitol illustrates that we live in dangerous and delicate times.

For these reasons Roherig and Pring’s book is an important antidote. It is short, well illustrated with punch visuals, and well worth reading.

More about the book

Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts. The authors, insiders at one of the world’s largest tech consulting firms, give a unique take on:

• The addictive nature of tech and how to fight it
• The growing backlash against big tech–where it’s right and what it misses
• Crucial steps for taming technology’s role in your life and in your organization–without becoming a modern Luddite

Written for managers, leaders, and employees at companies of all sizes and in all industries, Monster will help you understand and take control of technology’s powerful role in your life and your organization.