'Your Computer Is On Fire' draws on tech history to critique AI and the cloud

In a story last year about nine books I read about AI in 2020, I called Your Computer Is On Fire a book worth watching out for this year. It's released this week, and I was not disappointed. The premise of the book is that techno-utopianism should die because it's too dangerous to be allowed to continue. This argument came up recently in the context of Amazon workers in factories with robotics getting hurt more often than workers in factories without robots. But once people throw away unrealistic visions of outcomes, the history of technology looks very different.