This book can be insightful and detailed about certain aspects of technological development and the people/culture behind it. Then, for large parts of several chapters, it devolves into a one-sided social justice crusade that fails to seriously engage in the idea that differences in gender and racial representation might be in part because of different distributions of traits and interests in populations. This is a review, not an argument, so I’ll leave it at that. I get that the author might feel like he has a duty to address perceived injustices, and I can appreciate points of view other than my own, but the book really hits you over the head with an over-arching narrative that casts groups of individuals as solid blocks of identity and casts white men as the villains. If you don’t want to spend half of your time in this audiobook listening to that message, maybe it’s not for you, either.
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