World Without Mind and The Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer

Father John Jimenez has served in the Catholic Church for more than 30 years. Having been a priest at two District Parishes and chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital, Father John Jimenez has seen firsthand the consequence of untamed human desire. He urges all people to resist the temptations of desire and embrace responsible freedom and shared cooperation.
When Franklin Foer was pushed out as editor of New Republic in 2014, replaced by those, like almost everywhere else in the media, who turn their publication into clickbait fear mongering propaganda, he wrote a book called, "World Without Mind :The Existential Threat of Big Tech", where in his prologue he points out how tech monopolists desire to shape humanity into their desired image. He calls out, particularly, GAFA, Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, and shows examples of how they operate.
He explains, "the tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation. They have created a world in which we are constantly watched and always distracted. Through their accumulation of data, they have constructed portraits of our minds, which they use to guide mass behavior, even individual behavior, to further their financial interests. They have eroded the integrity of institutions--media, publishing--that supply intellectual material that provokes thought and guides democracy. Their most precious asset is our most precious asset, and they have abused it."