PanThe Guardian (UK)Susskind suggests we instead try \'mini-publics\' – most often seen in the form of \'citizen assemblies\', where you bring a small but representative group of the population together and give them expert briefings about a difficult choice to be made, after which they create policy options...What he doesn’t acknowledge is that this just delays the problem. After the mini-publics deliberate, you are back at the original choices: do nothing, legislate or regulate ... Deciding between those approaches would require a very detailed examination of how these companies work, and what effects the approaches could have. We don’t get that here. A big surprise about the book is the chapters’ length, or lack of it...Each chapter is thus only a few pages, the literary equivalent of those mini Mars bars infuriatingly described as \'fun size\'. But a lot of these topics deserve more than a couple of bites; they are far meatier and more complicated ... One is left with the sneaking suspicion that these problems might just be insoluble.