Difficult to Notice at First: How Technological Capability Outran Our Judgement, and What Remains Be Done

Nobody asked you whether the world should change this fast.Your attention was sold before you knew it was for sale. Your competence is being quietly absorbed by tools that get better at your job every year. Decisions about you are already being made by systems nobody fully understands - and in some countries the law assumes those systems are right unless you can prove otherwise.Most books about this tell you to be worried. This one tells you what to do.A third of it is instructions. How to keep your judgement sharp when everything is built to do your thinking for you. How to tell what is true when recordings can be faked. What to teach a child. How to refuse something at work, and what it will cost you.The rest explains why you need them - not with forecasts, but with things that already happened. Sixty-three years to ban leaded petrol. An oil company whose own scientists had the climate right in 1977, while its public position stayed uncertain for thirty more years. A thousand people prosecuted on the word of a computer the law presumed was working.It will not tell you that everything is fine. It will not tell you that nothing can be done. Both of those are lies.