Perhaps this book wasn’t what I was expecting based on the title, and that’s why I was disappointed a bit by it. 

It was informative and insightful. I do feel that I learned something about technology, AI, and how algorithms are manipulating world events. 

However, I suppose going into this book I didn’t think it was going to be talking so much about AI, about the dangers of current technology, or about how these technologies can help or harm. I thought this book was going to be more historical in scope, perhaps delving deeper into information exchange throughout history. Although there was some of that history of information that I anticipated, it wasn’t the main focus of this book. This book felt like it provided the history of information dissemination purely as a backdrop for making arguments about AI and current technology. 

Overall, it wasn’t a waste of time, per se, but it wasn’t what I was wanting to read about.