The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
By Tim Wu
Hardcover
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By Tim Wu
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Tim Wu, the man who first coined the phrase “net neutrality,” details the dangerous power imbalance in the tech industry today and offers steps for a more prosperous future.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 • Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants) explains how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works for everyone.
“The magic of Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction is its simplicity. Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age—the unaccountable power of tech platforms—into such digestible pieces that the solutions for what to do become dead ...
“The magic of Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction is its simplicity. Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age—the unaccountable power of tech platforms—into such digestible pieces that the solutions for what to do become dead ...









