

This technology also serves to limit poor people’s lives and opportunities, creating what she refers to as a digital poorhouse. In this book, Eubanks highlights a few situations where technology has negatively affected people’s lives, primarily poor people.

Books like Automating Inequality are good contributors to that discussion.

I am glad that the conversation about social problems caused by technology is expanding. This review is the first of several book reviews I’ve been working on about books relating to the problems which are emerging from technology. I recently read Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks and would like to share some thoughts.
