Technology, and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Keith Rabois and Anthony Pompliano
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Reading feels like a brisk, insider-driven briefing: Helberg mixes first-hand accounts from his time in Google policy roles with contextual analysis of state cyber tactics. What works best is the clear linkage between platform decisions, geopolitical hacking, and risks to democratic institutions; it surfaces concrete high-stakes scenarios that typically sit below headline coverage. Main limitation: technical passages and recurring warnings can feel repetitive, and the author's viewpoint leans toward advocacy rather than a neutral, deeply technical manual.
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From the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wakeup call” (Publishers Weekly) that explains the highstakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy.From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal pro...
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