THE INFORMATION TRADE 
How tech companies act like countries
HarperCollins | Order


"This erudite analysis should be required reading."
- Publishers Weekly 

 
"An excellent, provocative, and even visionary book on the role of tech in traditionally government spheres of activity."
- Mark Fowler, former Chair, Federal Communications Commission


"Wichowski presents a clear and unique viewpoint that integrates these seemingly inconsistent—but clearly correct—viewpoints into a coherent story that captures the problem with a nuance and constructively positive outlook I haven’t seen anywhere else.”
- Chad Mills, AI engineer 


"Eminently accessible, deeply researched exploration."
- Kirkus Reviews

 
"Authoritative yet accessible, friendly, and direct.”
- Washington Independent Review of Books

 
"Timely, compelling, and expertly researched passport to the tech companies that rule today’s digital landscape."
- Blake Harris, Console Wars


 "Wichowski offers an important framework for accessing how this new digital reality is shaping power structures, locally and globally."
- world’s first Tech Ambassador Casper Klynge (ret., Denmark); Vice President of European Government Affairs, Microsoft

 
"Wichowski is a wonderfully tireless investigator of the Internet’s Great Powers."
- Scott Malcomson, Splinternet

 
"One of the most seminal & important books on the impact of Big Tech in the world today.”
- Giles Crouch, digital anthropologist
 

 
 
 
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