Bob Hughes is an academic, activist, and author, and has taught electronic media at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Dust or Magic, a book for digital multimedia workers, about how people "do good stuff with computers." He is a member of No One is Illegal.

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• Foreword-Danny Dorling
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Technofatalism and the future - is a world without Foxconn even possible?
• Chapter 2: From water mills to iPhones: why technology and inequality do not mix
• Chapter 3: What inequality does to people
• Chapter 4: The environmental cost of human inequality
• Chapter 5: Ever greater impact, ever less benefit: high-tech capital's mysterious lack of growth
• Chapter 6: The invisible foot: why inequality increases impact
• Chapter 7: Enclosure in the computer age: the magic of control
• Chapter 8: Sales effort: from the automobile to the microchip
• Chapter 9: Technoptimism hits the buffers
• Chapter 10: The data explosion: how the cloud became a juggernaut
• Chapter 11: 'The least efficient machine humans have ever built': how capitalism drove the computer down a dead end
• Chapter 12: Planning by whom and for what? The battle for control from the Soviet Union to Walmart
• Chapter 13: A socialist computer: Chile, 1970-1973
• Chapter 14: Utopia or bust