Two books explore the price we’ve paid in handing over unprecedented power to Big Tech—and explain why it’s imperative we start taking it back.

From the very beginning, the internet was populated by “the granola-eating utopians, the solar-power enthusiasts, serious ecologists and the space-station crowd, immortalists, Biospherians, environmentalists, [and] social activists,” observed Howard Rheingold, the first executive editor of Wired magazine.

This realization led him to join Founders, Inc., a community built for ambitious founders who might not fit the traditional Silicon Valley mold.