Social Aspects
-
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance–fr… [more below]
- Author: Suleyman, Mustafa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593593952
- Language: English
-
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
$15.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller
Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available a- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 059346527X
- Language: English
-
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartLogical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: “Progress” is a myth. Wild nature and humanit… [more below]
- Author: Kaczynski, Theodore John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1944228039
- Language: English
-
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
$19.95 Add to cart“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”
“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuri
–John Horgan- Author: Larson, Erik J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278666
- Language: English
-
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention–And How to Think Deeply Again
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening–and how … [more below]
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593138511
- Language: English
-
Neuromined: Triumphing Over Technological Tyranny
$26.95 Read more- Author: Grant, Robert Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639080341
- Language: English
-
Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers
$29.00 Add to cartAn unfiltered, colorful romp through the IRL world of influencers that spills the tea on the multibillion-dollar industry of content creation.
If you’re anything like journalist Stephanie McNeal–aka,- Author: McNeal, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593418603
- Language: English
-
I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartA “fascinating, terrifying” (JJ Abrams) cautionary tale about the destructive power of AI–an autobiographical thriller written in verse by an AI itself, with context from top writers and scientists,
- Author: Code-Davinci-002
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316560065
- Language: English
-
The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
$30.00 Read moreThe inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives.
In 2021, when n- Author: Haugen, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 031647522X
- Language: English
-
The Software Developer’s Career Handbook: A Guide to Navigating the Unpredictable
$45.99 Add to cartAt some point in your career, you’ll realize there’s more to being a software engineer than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Or join a startup? In this insightful and entertaining bo
- Author: Lopp, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1098116674
- Language: English
-
Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
$32.00 Add to cartYou are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the de… [more below]
- Author: Tau, Byron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443225
- Language: English
-
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
$21.99 Add to cart“System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated.” — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America
A forward-thinki
- Author: Reich, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063251310
- Language: English
-
You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
$19.95 Add to cartLeading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life–for better or worse
Few of us give much thought to computer code or h- Author: Bosch, Torie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0691208484
- Language: English
-
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
$19.99 Add to cart** A New York Times Bestseller **
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time – The New Yorker – NPR – GQ – Elle – Vulture – Fortune – Boing Boing – The Irish Times – The New York Public Library- Author: Odell, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1612198554
- Language: English
-
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention–And How to Think Deeply Again
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening–and how … [more below]
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0593138538
- Language: English
-
Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic
$15.95 Add to cartCrisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for the radical changes our society needs. In a time of great uncertainty, fear, and isolation, Queer activists organized for health eq
- Author: Shanker, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639354
- Language: English
-
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
$18.99 Read moreForeword by Steven Pinker
Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast
- Author: Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0062390864
- Language: English
-
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
$18.99 Add to cartIn recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies–with hardware, software,… [more below]
- Author: Brynjolfsson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0393350649
- Language: English
-
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
$24.00 Add to cartWhy doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?
What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists agains- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 014313129X
- Language: English
-
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
$20.00 Add to cart“A quintessential work of technological futurism.” – James Surowiecki, strategy + business, “Best Business Books 2017 – Innovation”
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide thr- Author: Kelly, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110373
- Language: English
