Tim Wu
Tim Wu is the Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School. His book Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity is a finalist for this year's Donner Prize.
The spectacle of human achievement crushed into a tiny device, possessed of its own intelligence, resonates with something we are all experiencing—a sense that as we augment humanity, we may, at the same time, have come to marginalize actual humans.