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The Technology TrapBook

by Carl Benedikt Frey

Who uses, recommends or left The Technology Trap, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jasmine Sun
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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Um my second book is The Technology Trap from Carl Benedikt Frey, which I think is very much about how people's attitudes towards technology and automation depend on to what extent the benefits, the economic growth, is shared, to what extent they feel like they're getting a piece of the pie.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The A.I. Revolt Is Here” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

2026-08-04·youtube.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.